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Canada's Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier made sure their first trip onto the medal podium at a Grand Prix Final was memorable. They won gold.
The world bronze medallists, who held a half-point sliver of a lead over Americans Madison Chock and Evan Bates after the rhythm dance on Friday night, pulled away with their free dance on Saturday.
Skating to music from Madonna's 鈥淓vita,鈥 they scored 129.71 for the free dance and 215.64 overall.
鈥淲e felt great today from start to finish,鈥 Gilles said. 鈥淚 said to Paul after we finished, 'I felt that was the most present we have felt all season.'
鈥淲e didn't compete against any of the times we did it before, we just let it skate today and I think it topped the other programs because we just fell in love with the moment and the feeling and it was wonderful.鈥
Chock and Bates won silver with 211.94 while Charlene Guignard and Marco Fabbri of Italy claimed the bronze (206.84).
Gilles and Poirier, who'd never finished higher than fifth - in 2014 and '19 - followed in the footsteps of compatriots Shae-Lynn Bourne and Viktor Kraatz, Kaitlyn Weaver and Andrew Poje, and two-time Olympic champions Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir as Grand Prix Final champs.
The 30-year-old Gilles, and Poirier, 31, also won both their Grand Prix assignments this season - Skate Canada International and Grand Prix Finland.
The Grand Prix Final features the top six skaters or teams in each of the four disciplines after the Grand Prix circuit.
Canadians Nadiia Bashynska and Peter Beaumont, meanwhile, won ice dance gold in the junior Grand Prix Final on Saturday, scoring 167.26.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Dec. 10, 2022.
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