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Marie-France Dubreuil

Marie-France Dubreuil
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Dubreuil with Patrice Lauzon
Personal information
Country represented Canada
Born (1974-08-11) August 11, 1974 (age 42)
Montreal, Quebec
Height 1.63 m (5 ft 4 in)
Partner Patrice Lauzon
Former partner Tomas Morbacher
Bruno Yvars
Former coach Muriel Zazoui
Steffany Hanlen
Sylvie Fullum
Francois Vallee
Romain Haguenauer
Skating club CPA St-Leonard
Began skating 1980
Retired May 20, 2008
ISU personal best scores
Combined total 203.69
2004 Skate Canada
Comp. dance 40.51
2005 World Championships
Original dance 60.99
2004 Cup of China
Free dance 107.88
2003 Trophée Lalique

Marie-France Dubreuil (born August 11, 1974) is a Canadian ice dancing coach and former competitor. With partner and husband Patrice Lauzon, she is a two-time (2006–2007) World silver medalist.

Marie-France Dubreuil was born on August 11, 1974, in Montreal, Quebec. She married Patrice Lauzon in August 2008. On December 24, 2010, she gave birth to their daughter, Billie-Rose.

When Dubreuil was five, she asked for skating lessons for her birthday and her grandmother gave her skates as a present. She took up ice dancing at the age of ten. Competing with Bruno Yvars, she won the bronze medal at 1990 World Junior Championships.

Dubreuil teamed up with Patrice Lauzon in 1995 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, Sylvie Fullum and François Vallee, having retired after the 2001–02 season, Dubreuil/Lauzon 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. However, they had to withdraw from the 2006 Winter Olympics after she suffered an injury from a fall during a lift attempt at the end of a program that required Lauzon to carry her off the ice afterward. 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.


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