- Donald Jackson
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For other people named Donald Jackson, see Donald Jackson (disambiguation).
Olympic medal record Men's Figure Skating Competitor for 
CanadaBronze 1960 Squaw Valley Singles Donald Jackson Personal information Full name Donald George Jackson Country represented CanadaBorn April 2, 1940 Medal recordCompetitor for CanadaMen's Figure skating Olympic Games Bronze 1960 Squaw Valley Men's Singles World Championships Gold 1962 Prague Men's singles Silver 1960 Vancouver Men's singles Silver 1959 Colorado Springs Men's singles North American Championships Gold 1961 Philadelphia Men's singles Gold 1959 Toronto Men's singles Donald George Jackson, CM (born April 2, 1940 in Oshawa, Ontario) is a retired Canadian figure skater. He captured four Canadian titles and a bronze medal at the 1960 Winter Olympics. At the 1962 World Figure Skating Championships, he landed the first triple lutz jump in international competition and won the competition.[1]
Jackson was coached by Pierre Brunet in New York City, where he lived with the family of 1960 Olympic Champion Carol Heiss.[2]
In 1997, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada.
Jackson is currently the director of skating and is also a coach at the Minto Skating Club in Ottawa, Ontario.[3]
Results
Event 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 Winter Olympics 3rd World Championships 7th 4th 2nd 2nd ccd 1st North American Championships 4th 1st 1st Canadian Championships 2nd 2nd 2nd 1st 1st 1st 1st References
- ^ "Skate Canada History". http://www.skatecanada.ca/en/about_skate_canada/history/. Retrieved 2008-01-17.
- ^ "Tragic Crash Shocks Officials Here", The Ottawa Citizen, Feb 14 1961
- ^ "Minto Skating Club: Coaches". Archived from the original on 2007-09-30. http://web.archive.org/web/20070930140642/http://www.mintoskatingclub.ca/skating_programs/coaches/donald_jackson.shtml. Retrieved 2008-01-17.
External links
- Watch King of Blades, a 1965 National Film Board of Canada short film on Donald Jackson
North American champions in figure skating – Men's singles 1923: Sherwin Badger · 1925–1927: Melville Rogers · 1929–1939: Montgomery Wilson · 1941: Ralph McCreath · 1947–1951: Dick Button · 1953–1955: Hayes Alan Jenkins · 1957: David Jenkins · 1959–1961: Donald Jackson · 1963: Donald McPherson · 1965: Gary Visconti · 1967: Donald Knight · 1969: Tim Wood · 1971: John Misha Petkevich
Canadian champions in figure skating – Men's singles 1905–06, 1908: Ormond B. Haycock • 1910: Douglas H. Nelles • 1911: Ormond B. Haycock • 1912: Douglas H. Nelles • 1913: Philip Chrysler • 1914, 1920: Norman Scott • 1921–22: Duncan Hodgson • 1923: Melville Rogers • 1924: John Machado • 1925: Melville Rogers • 1929–35: Montgomery Wilson • 1936–37: Osborne Colson • 1938–39: Montgomery Wilson • 1940–41: Ralph McCreath • 1942: Michael Kirby • 1945: Nigel Stephens • 1946: Ralph McCreath • 1947: Norris Bowden • 1948: Wallace Diestelmeyer • 1949–50: Roger Wickson • 1951–53: Peter Firstbrook • 1954–58: Charles Snelling • 1959–62: Donald Jackson • 1963: Donald McPherson • 1964: Charles Snelling • 1965–67: Donald Knight • 1968–69: Jay Humphry • 1970: David McGillivray • 1971–76: Toller Cranston • 1977: Ron Shaver • 1978–80: Brian Pockar • 1981–88: Brian Orser • 1989–91: Kurt Browning • 1992: Michael Slipchuk • 1993: Kurt Browning • 1994: Elvis Stojko • 1995: Sébastien Britten • 1996–2000: Elvis Stojko • 2001: Emanuel Sandhu • 2002: Elvis Stojko • 2003–04: Emanuel Sandhu • 2005–07: Jeffrey Buttle • 2008–11: Patrick Chan
Awards Preceded by
Bruce KiddLou Marsh Trophy winner
1962Succeeded by
Bill CrothersCategories:- 1940 births
- Canadian male single skaters
- Canada's Sports Hall of Fame inductees
- Figure skaters at the 1960 Winter Olympics
- Living people
- Lou Marsh Trophy winners
- Members of the Order of Canada
- Sportspeople from Ontario
- Olympic bronze medalists for Canada
- People from Oshawa
- People from Ottawa
- Olympic figure skaters of Canada
- Olympic medalists in figure skating
- Canadian figure skating biography stubs
- Canadian Winter Olympic medalist stubs
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