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Several Team Canada athletes capped off a long season of competition with podium performances last weekend.
Canada’s history of success as the ISU Figure Skating World Championships were held in Prague continued with standout skates from Piper Gilles & Paul Poirier and Lia Pereira & Trennt Michaud, as well as an impressive debut for Stephen Gogolev.
Evan Bichon made his big World Cup breakthrough at the snowboard cross final in Mont-Ste-Anne, Quebec while Reece Howden earned his second consecutive Crystal Globe in ski cross
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Figure Skating: Two medals for Canadian skaters at the world championships
Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier captured their third straight silver (and fifth medal of their careers) in the ice dance event at the ISU Figure Skating World Championships. After winning Olympic bronze with a stunning performance of the free dance “Vincent”, they decided to let the moment pass and bring back another fan favorite program with a score Wuthering Heights for the world championships. Even though they have only been in the program for a few weeks, they are showing outstanding performance.
READ: Gilles & Poirier win ice dance silver medal at world championships
Lia Pereira & Trennt Michaud claimed their first world championships medal, taking bronze in the pairs event. They broke the 200-point barrier for the first time, setting a personal best total score of 216.09 with two very strong skates.
READ: Pereira & Michaud win pairs bronze at world championships
Stephen Gogolev posted Canada’s best world championships result in the men’s event since 2013. His fourth-place finish came after an impressive fifth-place finish at Milano Cortina 2026. He earned personal best scores in both programs during his world championships debut.
Ski Cross: Back-to-back podiums for Howden closed out the season
After locking up the Crystal Globe a week earlier, Reece Howden finished his FIS Ski Cross World Cup season with back-to-back second-place finishes in Gällivare, Sweden.
READ: Howden closes season with back-to-back podium finishes and Crystal Globe
Hannah Schmidt also reached the podium on Saturday, finishing third. She ended the season as the top-ranked Canadian woman in the World Cup standings, placing sixth. Jared Schmidt was fifth in Sunday’s event after winning the small final.
Snowboard: First career World Cup podium for Bichon
Evan Bichon closed out the snowboard cross season by earning his first career FIS World Cup podium. He placed third on Saturday at the snow course in Mont-Ste-Anne, Quebec. The closest he had come to a podium before was a fourth-place finish at Mont-Ste-Anne two years ago.
It was an emotional season for the 27-year-old, who made his 2026 Milano Cortina Olympic debut just months after his mother lost her short battle with cancer.
Freestyle Skiing: Olympic medalists complete the season
Olympic bronze medalist Brendan Mackay finished off the podium in the final halfpipe event of the FIS Freestyle World Cup season. Mackay’s score of 83.00 put him in fourth place, one place ahead of Olympic teammate Andrew Longino who finished fifth with a best score of 81.75.
Amy Fraser finished fourth in the women’s ski halfpipe event in Silvaplana, Switzerland, missing the podium by just half a point with her score of 79.50.
In her first competition since winning two Olympic medals, Megan Oldham placed seventh in the women’s ski slopestyle at Silvaplana.
Five-time Olympic medalist Mikaël Kingsbury competed for the final time in his illustrious career at the Canadian Freestyle Ski Championships. On his home hill at Sommet Saint-Sauveur, Kingsbury won the mogul and dual mogul events before skiing into retirement.
Swimming: Liendo won his fourth straight NCAA 100 free title
The most dominant Canadian in American college swimming, Josh Liendo won his fourth consecutive title in the men’s 100 yard freestyle at the NCAA Championships. Now a senior at the University of Florida, Liendo has never lost an NCAA title in this event. He became the second person ever to win the 100 free four times in a row at the NCAA Championships. Liendo also won the 100 yard butterfly for the third time and won the 50 yard free for the second time.
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