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