Marie-France Dubreuil


Marie-France Dubreuil is a Canadian ice dancing coach and former competitor. With partner and husband Patrice Lauzon, she is a two-time World silver medallist.

Personal life

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.

Competitive career

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. The pair of Ekaterina Gordeeva / Sergei Grinkov was one of her influences. 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 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. 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.
Dubreuil/Lauzon skated in ice shows in the 2007–08 season. They confirmed their retirement from competitive skating on May 20, 2008.
Dubreuil appeared on the CBC Television series Battle of the Blades, in which figure skaters are paired with ice hockey players in a figure skating competition. She and her season 1 partner Stéphane Richer finished in third place. She took season 2 off because she was pregnant. During the show's third season, she was paired with Bryan Berard.

Coaching career

Dubreuil and Lauzon coach ice dancing at the Gadbois Centre in Montreal with Romain Haguenauer. Their current students include:
*Komatsubara and Koleto will split their time between Canada and Japan to enable Koleto to gain Japanese Citizenship.
Their former students include:
SeasonOriginal danceFree danceExhibition
2006–07

  • Paya d'Ora
by Orquesta del Tango de la
Ciudad de Buenos Aires
  • At Last
by Etta James
Jacques Brel
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by Tina Turner
2005–06
Salsa and rhumba:
  • Ne Me Quitte Pas
by Jacques Brel
by John Barry
  • Ne Me Quitte Pas
by Jacques Brel
by Arthur Freed
2004–05

by Arthur Freed
  • Winter Vision
by Scott Fitzgerald
  • Taboo
by Peter Gabriel
  • Singing in the Rain
by Arthur Freed
2003–04

  • Americano
by Renato Carosone
  • Des Tours De Vies
    • by Antony Rouchier
    • Santa Maria
    by Christoph Mullee, Edouardo Markoff
    • Vuelvo Al Sur
    by Ástor Piazzolla
    • Tango Inna Babylone
    by Cesar Valente, Sebastien Isaia, Antony Rouchier
    by Portishead
    2002–03

    • At the Ball
    • Furioso Polka
    by Johann Strauss
    • Dance with my Heart
    by Majoly
    • Tango medley
    2001–02
    • Yo Soy Maria
    • Balada Renga Para Un Organito Loco
    • Yo Soy Maria''
    by Ástor Piazzolla
    by Giacomo Puccini
    2000–01

    • L-O-V-E
    by Nat King Cole

    by E. Burnette, G. A. Norton

    by E. Goldenthal
    1999–2000
  • Life Is Beautiful
    • by Nicola Piovani
    by Georges Michael
    • The Feeling Begins
    by Peter Gabriel
    1998–99

    • La Grimas Y Sonisas
    • Argentine Waltz
  • The Feeling Begins
    • by Peter Gabriel

    Results

    GP: Champions Series / Grand Prix

    With Lauzon

    With Morbacher

    With Yvars