Patrice Lauzon
Canadian ice dancer (born 1975)
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Patrice Lauzon (French pronunciation: [patʁis lozɔ̃]; born November 26, 1975) is a Canadian ice dancing coach and former competitor. With his wife Marie-France Dubreuil, he is a two-time (2006–2007) World silver medalist.
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| Born | November 26, 1975 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Spouse | Marie-France Dubreuil | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Canada | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Partner | Marie-France Dubreuil | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Skating club | CPA Boisbriand | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Began skating | 1984 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Retired | May 20, 2008 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Personal life
Competitive career
Lauzon initially took figure skating classes to improve his hockey skating.[4] He took up ice dancing at the age of twelve.[4][5] Early in his career, he competed with Marisa Gravino and Chantal Lefebvre.[6][7]
In 1995, Lauzon teamed up with Marie-France Dubreuil 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 then decided to move permanently to Lyon, France, to train under Muriel Boucher-Zazoui.[8]
Dubreuil/Lauzon captured the gold medal at the Canadian National Championships five times and competed at the Winter Olympics twice. They were forced to withdraw from the 2006 Winter Olympics after Dubreuil suffered an injury. 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.
Coaching career
In 2014, Dubreuil and Lauzon, alongside French coach Romain Haguenauer, founded "I.AM",[9] a modern ice dancing academy located in Montreal.[10] I.AM had seven of the top 10 competitors at the 2025 World Figure Skating Championships.[9]
Their current students include:
Madison Chock / Evan Bates[11] (2022 & 2026 Olympic gold medalists (team event), 2026 Olympic silver medalists, Three-Time World Champions, Three-time Four Continents Champions)
Diana Davis / Gleb Smolkin[12]
Alicia Fabbri / Marko Jevgeni Gaidajenko[13]
Lilah Fear / Lewis Gibson[14] (European silver medalists, Five-time British National Champions)
Laurence Fournier Beaudry / Guillaume Cizeron[15] (2026 Olympic gold medalists)- Jamie Fournier / Everest Zhu[16]
- Sandrine Gauthier / Paul Ayer[17]
Holly Harris / Jason Chan[18]
Rika Kihira / Shingo Nishiyama[19]- Marjorie Lajoie / Jean-Luc Baker[20]
- Marie-Jade Lauriault / Romain Le Gac[21]
- Hannah Lim / Zachary Lagha[22]
- Evgeniia Lopareva / Geoffrey Brissaud[23]
- Vanessa Pham / Anton Spiridonov[24]
Allison Reed / Saulius Ambrulevičius[25]
Olivia Smart / Tim Dieck[26]
Shiyue Wang / Xinyu Liu[27]- Xiao Zixi / He Linghao[28]
Their former students include:
- Emmy Bronsard / Aissa Bouaraguia[29]
- Chen Hong / Sun Zhuoming[30]
- Ellie Fisher / Simon-Pierre Malette-Paquette[31]
Laurence Fournier Beaudry / Nikolaj Sørensen[32]- Alicia Fabbri / Paul Ayer[33]
- Rikako Fukase / Aru Tateno[34]
- Rikako Fukase / Oliver Zhang[35]
Tina Garabedian / Simon Proulx-Sénécal[36]- Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker[37] (Four Continents Champions)
Mariia Holubtsova / Kyryl Bielobrov[38]- Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue[39] (2022 Olympic champions (team event), 2022 Olympic bronze medalists, Four Continents Champions, Grand Prix Final Champions, U.S. National Champions)
- Sara Hurtado / Adrián Díaz[40]
- Sara Kishimoto / Atsuhito Tamura[41]
- Misato Komatsubara / Tim Koleto[42] (2022 Olympic silver medalists (team event))
Lee Ho-jung / Richard Kang-in Kam[43]- Marjorie Lajoie / Zachary Lagha[44] (World Junior Champions)
- Hannah Lim / Ye Quan[45]
Teodora Markova / Simon Daze[46]
Solène Mazingue / Marko Jevgeni Gaidajenko[47]- Melinda Meng / Andrew Meng[48]
- Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron (2022 Olympic gold medalists, 2018 Olympic silver medalists, Five-time European champions, Five-time World Champions, Three-time French National Champions)[49]
- Élisabeth Paradis / François-Xavier Ouellette[50]
- Alexandra Paul / Mitchell Islam[51]
Justyna Plutowska / Jérémie Flemin[52]- Celia Robledo / Luis Fenero[53]
- Olivia Smart / Adrián Díaz[54]
- Carolane Soucisse / Shane Firus[55]
- Azusa Tanaka / Shingo Nishiyama[56]
- Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir[57] (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)
Other skaters Lauzon has choreographed for include:
Controversies
The coaches of the Ice Academy of Montreal (IAM), including Lauzon and his wife, have received criticism from skating fans online regarding the treatment of some of their students.
In a 2022 French documentary about French Olympic champion ice dancers and IAM pupils, Gabriella Papadakis/Guillaume Cizeron, titled Le couple de feu, Papadakis shared that she had gotten pregnant only weeks before the 2019 World Championships. She further opened up about feeling intense feelings of guilt over this as an elite athlete, alleging that after informing her coaching team at the Ice Academy of Montreal about her situation, they were unsympathetic and told her to "deal with it and come back," making her feel as though she had no other choice but to get an abortion.[61][62][63]
In fall 2023, Danish-Canadian ice dancer, Nikolaj Sørensen, a long-time student of the IAM, was investigated by Canada's Sport Integrity Commissioner for the alleged sexual assault of an American figure skating coach and former skater in 2012.[64] American journalist Christine Brennan would report this in USA Today days before the 2024 Canadian Championships. As a result, Sørensen and his partner, Laurence Fournier Beaudry, would withdraw from those national championships, however, they were still assigned to compete at the 2024 Four Continents Championships and the 2024 World Championships, attracting outrage and media attention.[65][66] Despite this, Fournier Beaudry/Sørensen's coaching team continued to stand by them with Marie-France Dubreuil even giving an interview shortly before the World Championships, saying, "These are allegations that have left no one indifferent. It has turned a lot of lives upside down. Nik continues to follow the investigation process and respects to the letter [what is asked of him]. It is not up to us to judge and discriminate. For him, for Laurence, for everyone, it was a big shock."[67] In October 2024, Sørensen would be found guilty by Canada's Sport Integrity Commissioner of sexual maltreatment and six-year suspension was ultimately issued by Skate Canada.[68] In her 2026 memoir, Pour ne pas disparaître, Gabriella Papadakis shared that IAM's decision to continue supporting Sørensen despite the allegations against him was the reason she decided to cut ties with her former coaches.[63]
In November 2024, French-Estonian ice dancer and IAM trainee, Solène Mazingue gave an interview, alleging that she had been sexually assaulted by Russian-American ice dancer, Ivan Desyatov, while in Zagreb, Croatia for the annual Golden Spin of Zagreb competition in December 2023. She would accuse her IAM coaches of not taking her claims seriously, alleging that she had confided in Dubreuil and detailed what had happened to her. Mazingue further alleged that Dubreuil promised to report the incident to SkateSafe and the leaders of Team USA. However, this was not followed through for the U.S. Center for SafeSport did not receive any report about the alleged incident until September 2024, which Mazingue filed herself. This would result in Desyatov being suspended from competing indefinitely one month later.[69]
Programs
(with Dubreuil)
| Season | Original dance | Free dance | Exhibition |
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| 2006–07 [1] |
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Salsa and rhumba:
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| 2004–05 [71] |
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| 2003–04 [72] |
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| 2001–02 [73][74] |
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| 2000–01 [74][75] |
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| 1999–2000 [5][74] |
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| 1998–99 [74] |
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Competitive highlights
GP: Champions Series / Grand Prix
With Dubreuil
| International[76] | ||||||||||||
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| Event | 95–96 | 96–97 | 97–98 | 98–99 | 99–00 | 00–01 | 01–02 | 02–03 | 03–04 | 04–05 | 05–06 | 06–07 |
| Olympics | 12th | WD | ||||||||||
| Worlds | 10th | 11th | 10th | 10th | 8th | 7th | 2nd | 2nd | ||||
| Four Continents | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 2nd | 1st | |||||||
| GP Final | 6th | 6th | 6th | 6th | 5th | 3rd | 2nd | |||||
| GP Cup of China | 3rd | |||||||||||
| GP Cup of Russia | 6th | 5th | 6th | |||||||||
| GP Lalique | 6th | 2nd | ||||||||||
| GP NHK Trophy | 4th | 1st | 1st | |||||||||
| GP Skate Canada | 4th | 3rd | 2nd | 3rd | 2nd | 1st | 1st | |||||
| GP Spark./Bofrost | 8th | 2nd | 4th | |||||||||
| Bofrost Cup | 1st | |||||||||||
| Czech Skate | 1st | |||||||||||
| Golden Spin | 2nd | |||||||||||
| Lysiane Lauret | 11th | |||||||||||
| Schäfer Memorial | 6th | |||||||||||
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| Canadian Champ. | 6th | 4th | 4th | 4th | 1st | 2nd | 2nd | 2nd | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st |
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With Lefebvre
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| Event | 1993–94 | 1994–95 |
| World Junior Championships | 4th | |
| International St. Gervais | 3rd | |
| Nebelhorn Trophy | 3rd | |
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| Canadian Championships | 1st J | 5th |
With Gravino
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| Event | 1992–93 | |
| World Junior Championships | 12th | |
