Canada finishes fifth in Olympic figure skating team event
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MILAN – Canada finished fifth in the Olympic figure skating team event Sunday after starting the day in fourth.
Lia Pereira and Trennt Michaud delivered a stellar pairs free skate, shattering their personal-best score but still placing fifth in the segment.
Madeline Schizas of Oakville, Ont., followed with a fifth-place finish in the women’s free program before Toronto’s Stephen Gogolev landed fourth in the men’s.
Canada totalled 54 points across the three-day, eight-segment competition. A powerhouse United States team — including self-proclaimed “Quad God” Ilia Malinin — captured gold with 69 to edge Japan by one point.
The two countries were tied with 59 points apiece heading into the men’s free program, where Malinin prevailed over Shun Sato despite landing awkwardly on multiple jumps at Milano Ice Skating Arena.
Host Italy claimed bronze to a raucous applause after Matteo Rizzo’s electric free skate. Georgia finished fourth with 56 points.
Points were awarded based on team placements in each event. The first-place country receives 10 points, the second-place team receives nine, and so forth. Only five countries in the 10-team event advanced to the following short programs.
Pereira, of Milton, Ont., and Michaud, of Trenton, Ont., scored 134.42 points to music from the film “Gladiator,” a revived routine from the 2023-24 season, pumping their fists in joy at Milano Ice Skating Arena after nailing every element except their throw triple loop.
Schizas, meanwhile, scored 125.00 after falling on a triple lutz to open her “Butterfly Lovers” program. Kaori Sakamoto then brought the house down with 148.62 points as Japan pulled even with the U.S.
Skating to “Piano Concerto No. 2” by Sergei Rachmaninov, Gogolev — who sent Canada into the final with an outstanding short program performance Saturday — posted 171.93 points.
Canada has a history of success in the team event.
Ice dance greats Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir led Canada to a gold medal at the 2018 Games and a silver in 2014, the inaugural team event.
The country finished fourth at the 2022 Beijing Games behind the United States, Japan and Russia, which fell from first to third after teenage skater Kamila Valieva tested positive for a banned substance.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Feb. 8, 2026.