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Lia Pereira and Trennt Michaud are world championship medalists.
The duo skated to a bronze medal in the pairs event at the 2026 ISU Figure Skating World Championships in Prague, Czech Republic on Thursday.
For the first time in their careers, Pereira and Michaud broke the 200-point barrier with their personal best total score of 216.09. That put them on the podium behind new world champions Minerva Fabienne Hase and Nikita Volodin of Germany (228.33), as well as silver medalists Anastasiia Metelkina and Luka Berulava of Georgia (218.41).
“I think it’s a bit difficult to explain at the moment,” Pereira said when asked how they were doing. “A roller coaster of emotions before we stepped on the ice and then while we were on the ice and throughout the program. We’re really proud of how we handled it all. We skated our hearts out out there and left it all out there and I think it shows so we’re very happy.”
Pereira and Michaud started the event with a personal best short program score of 75.52 on Wednesday, skating even better than they did during their Olympic debut at Milano Cortina 2026 where they also placed third in the short program.
“We got a lot of confidence from that,” Michaud said referring to what they learned from their Olympic experience. “As an elite athlete you want to be able to move forward [the ice] and doing the best you can the first time around, but having experience at the Olympics, doing great programs at the Olympics, and then taking that from there to help us be able to perform the way we want to today.
“Knowing that if we focus on ourselves and what we can do, we can achieve what we want. And we achieved that today, so that’s pretty cool.”
At the Olympics, Pereira and Michaud dropped back to eighth overall after the free skate. But this time, with a world championships podium before their eyes, they were able to get a personal best in the free skate.
They scored 140.57, six points higher than their previous best score, set during the Olympic team event. The only notable error in the program was Michaud placing her free foot on an adjacent triple salchow. Just as importantly, they reached level four on all lifts, triple twists, and pair spins, while their death spiral was at level three.
Pereira and Michaud actually finished second behind Germany in the free skate. But the Georgian team had a nearly four-point gap on the Canadian team after the short program, which put them ahead of Pereira and Michaud overall.
Canada’s second pairing team, Kelly Ann Laurin and Loucas Éthier, finished 19th.
Earlier in the day, Stephen Gogolev placed fifth in the men’s short program with a personal best score of 94.38. He has a clean performance that includes a quad toe-triple toe combo, a quad salchow, and a triple axel. He also got a level four on his three turns and move sequence. That put him in the last flight for Saturday’s free skate. He is 2.11 points behind the podium position.
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