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Patrice Lauzon (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.




Personal life


Patrice Lauzon was born in Montreal, Quebec, the son of Cecile and Norman Lauzon. He married Marie-France Dubreuil in August 2008. On December 24, 2010, Dubreuil gave birth to their daughter, Billie-Rose.




Competitive career



Lauzon initially took figure skating classes to improve his hockey skating. He took up ice dancing at the age of twelve. Early in his career, he competed with Marisa Gravino and Chantal Lefebvre.
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.
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



Dubreuil and Lauzon coach and choreograph ice dancing at Ice Academy of Montreal with Romain Haguenauer. Their current students include:

Madison Chock / Evan Bates (Olympic gold medalists (team event), Two-Time World Champions, Three-time Four Continents Champions, Four-time U.S. National Champions)
Diana Davis / Gleb Smolkin
Alicia Fabbri / Paul Ayer
Lilah Fear / Lewis Gibson (European silver medalists, Five-time British National Champions)
Laurence Fournier Beaudry / Nikolaj Sørensen
Holly Harris / Jason Chan
Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker (Four Continents Champions)
Marjorie Lajoie / Zachary Lagha (World Junior Champions)
Marie-Jade Lauriault / Romain Le Gac
Hannah Lim / Ye Quan
Evgeniia Lopareva / Geoffrey Brissaud
Solène Mazingue / Marko Jevgeni Gaidajenko
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)
Allison Reed / Saulius Ambrulevičius
Azusa Tanaka / Shingo Nishiyama
Shiyue Wang / Xinyu Liu
Olivia Smart / Tim Dieck
Their former students include:

Emmy Bronsard / Aissa Bouaraguia
Chen Hong / Sun Zhuoming
Ellie Fisher / Simon-Pierre Malette-Paquette
Rikako Fukase / Aru Tateno
Rikako Fukase / Oliver Zhang
Tina Garabedian / Simon Proulx-Sénécal
Mariia Holubtsova / Kyryl Bielobrov
Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue(2022 Olympic champions (team event), 2022 Olympic bronze medalists, Four Continents Champions, Grand Prix Final Champions, U.S. National Champions)
Sara Hurtado / Adrián Díaz
Misato Komatsubara / Tim Koleto (2022 Olympic silver medalists (team event))
Lee Ho-jung / Richard Kang-in Kam
Teodora Markova / Simon Daze
Melinda Meng / Andrew Meng
Élisabeth Paradis / François-Xavier Ouellette
Alexandra Paul / Mitchell Islam
Justyna Plutowska / Jérémie Flemin
Celia Robledo / Luis Fenero
Olivia Smart / Adrián Díaz
Carolane Soucisse / Shane Firus
Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir (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:

Pernelle Carron / Matthieu Jost
Shawn Sawyer
Julianne Séguin / Charlie Bilodeau




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 claimed to have unexpectedly gotten pregnant around the same time that the 2021 World Championships took place. She said that as an elite athlete, this made her feel intense feelings of guilt. Two weeks following the discovery, Papadakis informed her coaching team at the Ice Academy of Montreal about her situation. She alleges that they were unsympathetic and simply told her to "deal with it and come back," making her feel as though she had no other choice but to have an abortion performed on her. Papadakis stated that this incident had a severe impact on her mental health.
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. 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. 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." 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.
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.




Programs


(with Dubreuil)




Competitive highlights


GP: Champions Series / Grand Prix




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= With Lefebvre

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References






External links


Media related to Patrice Lauzon at Wikimedia Commons

Marie-France Dubreuil / Patrice Lauzon at the International Skating Union
"Official site". Archived from the original on February 23, 2004. Retrieved December 5, 2016.

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