Marie-France Dubreuil

Marie-France Dubreuil was born on August 11, 1974, in Montreal, Quebec.[1] She married her Canadian partner and skater Patrice Lauzon in August 2008.[2] On December 24, 2010, she gave birth to their daughter, Billie-Rose.[3]

When Dubreuil was five, she asked for skating lessons for her birthday and her grandmother gave her skates as a present.[4][5] She took up ice dancing at the age of ten.[5] The pair of Ekaterina Gordeeva / Sergei Grinkov was one of her influences.[6] Competing with Bruno Yvars, she won the bronze medal at 1990 World Junior Championships.[5]

Dubreuil teamed up with Patrice Lauzon in 1995 and they placed 6th at their first Canadian Championships. They took the silver medal in their first appearance at Four Continents in 2000. Their coaches were Sylvie Fullum and François Vallee, who retired after the 2001–02 season. Dubreuil/Lauzon decided to move permanently to Lyon, France, to train under Muriel Boucher-Zazoui.[7]

Dubreuil/Lauzon captured the gold medal at the Canadian National Championships five times and competed at the Winter Olympics twice. They had to withdraw from the 2006 Winter Olympics after Dubreuil suffered an injury from a fall during a lift attempt at the end of a program. Lauzon had to carry her off the ice.[8] They recovered to win the silver medal at the 2006 World Championships in Calgary, Alberta.

Dubreuil/Lauzon began the 2006–07 season with gold medals at 2006 Skate Canada International and 2006 NHK Trophy, which qualified them for the Grand Prix Final. At the World Championships in Tokyo, they took their second consecutive World silver medal.

Dubreuil/Lauzon skated in ice shows in the 2007–08 season. They confirmed their retirement from competitive skating on May 20, 2008.[9]

Dubreuil appeared on the CBC Television series Battle of the Blades, in which figure skaters are paired with ice hockey players in a figure skating competition. She and her season 1 partner Stéphane Richer finished in third place. She took season 2 off because she was pregnant. During the show's third season, she was paired with Bryan Berard.[10]

Dubreuil/Lauzon with students, Madison Chock and Evan Bates at the 2022-23 Grand Prix Final

Dubreuil and Lauzon coach and choreograph ice dancing at the Gadbois Centre in Montreal with Romain Haguenauer.[11] Their current students include:

• Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron[12] (Olympic gold medalists,olympic silver medalists, European champions, Five-time World Champions, Three-time French National Champions)
• Laurence Fournier Beaudry / Nikolaj Sørensen[13] (Two-time Danish National Champions and 2019 Canadian bronze-medallists.)
• Madison Chock / Evan Bates[14] (Olympic silver medalists (team event), World Champions, Three-time Four Continents Champions, Four-time U.S. National Champions)
• Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker[15] (Four Continents Champions)
• Marie-Jade Lauriault / Romain Le Gac[16]
• Marjorie Lajoie / Zachary Lagha[17] (World Junior Champions)
• Rikako Fukase / Oliver Zhang[18]
• Lilah Fear / Lewis Gibson[19] (European silver medalists, Five-time British National Champions)
• Chen Hong / Sun Zhuoming[20]
• Shiyue Wang / Xinyu Liu[21]
• Misato Komatsubara / Tim Koleto[22]
• Evgenia Lopareva / Geoffrey Brissaud[23]
• Allison Reed / Saulius Ambrulevičius[24]
• Alicia Fabbri / Paul Ayer[25]
• Holly Harris / Jason Chan[26]
• Hannah Lim / Ye Quan[27]
• Mariia Holubtsova / Kyryl Bielobrov[28]

Their former students include:

• Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir[29] (Three-time Olympic gold medalists, Two-time Olympic silver medalists, Three-time World Champions, Grand Prix Final Champions, Three-time Four Continents Champions, World Junior Champions, Junior Grand Prix Final Champions, Eight-time Canadian National Champions, Only ice dancers to achieve career grand slam)
• Carolane Soucisse / Shane Firus[30]
• Justyna Plutowska / Jérémie Flemin[31]
• Olivia Smart / Adrián Díaz[32]
• Sara Hurtado / Adrián Díaz[33]
• Ellie Fisher / Simon-Pierre Malette-Paquette [34]
• Teodora Markova / Simon Daze [35]
• Lee Ho-jung / Richard Kang-in Kam[36]
• Élisabeth Paradis / François-Xavier Ouellette[37]
• Alexandra Paul / Mitchell Islam[38]
• Celia Robledo / Luis Fenero[39]
• Ellie Fisher / Simon-Pierre Malette-Paquette [40][41]
• Rikako Fukase / Aru Tateno[42]
• Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue[43] (2022 Olympic bronze medalists, Four Continents Champions, Grand Prix Final Champions, U.S. National Champions)
• Melinda Meng / Andrew Meng[44]
• Tina Garabedian / Simon Proulx-Sénécal[45]

Other skaters Dubreuil has choreographed for include:

• Shawn Sawyer[46]
• Pernelle Carron / Matthieu Jost[47]
• Joannie Rochette[48]
• Lubov Iliushechkina / Dylan Moscovitch[49]
• Julianne Séguin / Charlie Bilodeau[50]
• Lubov Iliushechkina / Charlie Bilodeau[51]
• Nathan Chen[52]
• Kaori Sakamoto[53]
• Camden Pulkinen[54]
• Roman Sadovsky[55]

(with Lauzon)

GP: Champions Series / Grand Prix

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Marie-France Dubreuil.

• Marie-France Dubreuil / Patrice Lauzon at the International Skating Union
• Official site at the Wayback Machine (archive index)
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