Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier win gold at the International fall classic Gilles and Poirier win a gold medal at the International fall classic

OAKVILLE, ont. -Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier of Toronto won the gold medal in dance at the International fall Figure Skating classic that ended Saturday at the Sixteen Mile Sports complex.

Gilles and Poirier performed a new free dance at the sound of Joni Mitchell's both sides now and earned 202.49 points. Lilah fear and Lewis Gibson of England won the silver medal with 184.09 and Marie-Jade Lauriault and Romain Le GAC of France finished third with 182.91.

"I felt really good and we were both excited to perform this dance," said Gilles. At the camp we felt it was a very good start and he grew up even more here today. We will give it the effort and the time it needs to develop. "

Last season, the couple made a splash with their dance on the song Vincent and once again enchanted the crowd with their new dance.

"we let the dance unfold and Don't have the defects affecting the performance," added Poirier. We are really excited to see where our two new dances will take us. "

Carolane Soucisse of Châteauguay, Que., and Shane Firus of North Vancouver, second after the rhythm dance on Friday, slid to fifth place overall with 172.90 points. The couple presented some impressive moves in their dance on a Tom Jones potpourri, but Firus had the misfortune of falling in the middle of the dance.

"I made a big mistake in the volts," said Firus. It made us lose points, but other than that, I think the dance went quite well. "

Double Olympic champion Yuzuru Hanyu of Japan won the men's race with 279.05 points. Kevin Aymoz of France took the silver medal with 262.47 and Keegan Messing of Sherwood Park finished third with 256.02.

Messing fell in his opening quadruple Lutz, but came back in strength with two quadruple spiked loops-one where he put one hand on the ice, and two triple Axels-including one in a suit-to maintain his position in the medals.

"everything was tough and a fight," said Messing. I had a terrible warm-up and I went back behind the scenes to come to my senses. I came back and took each item one at a time and fought until the end. "

Conrad Orzel of Toronto ran the fifth best freestyle program, but remained sixth with 214.98. He also had two quadruple spiked loops and two triple Axels in his program.

"the long program didn't start as planned," he said. I made a triple Lutz instead of a quadruple. Thanks to my training, I was able to forget it and refocus on the rest of the program. "