Cizeron And Fournier Beaudry Win Ice Dance World Title; U.S. Extends Medal Streak

Laurence Fournier Beaudry and Guillaume Cizeron from France compete during the ice dance free dance at the Figure Skating World Championships in Prague, Czech Republic, Saturday, March 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek) Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved Just a month after winning Olympic gold, Guillaume Cizeron and Laurence Fournier Beaudry of France won ice dance gold at the 2026 ISU World Figure Skating Championships in Prague.

In a performance that surpassed the quality of their Olympic win, the French duo defeated silver medalists Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier (Canada) and bronze medalists Emilea Zingas and Vadym Kolesnik (United States). With their win, the French become the fastest ice dance duo to win Olympic and World gold, having only begun training together in March 2025. While the title is Fournier-Beaudry’s first, it is the sixth world title for Cizeron, who won four with his former partner Gabriella Papadakis.

This is the third-straight silver medal for Gilles and Poirier, who have amassed one Olympic and five world medals in their 15-year partnership. With three-time World Champions Madison Chock and Evan Bates out of the competition, top-ranked Americans Emilea Zingas and Vadym Kolesnik looked to keep the American Ice Dance legacy alive, and they succeeded. The pair earned bronze in their world championship debut, securing a medal for U.

S. Figure Skating in the 13th-straight championship. Americans Christina Carreira and Anthony Ponomarenko, and Caroline Green and Michael Parsons, finished in eighth and 12th, respectively.