- Charles Snelling (figure skater)
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Charles Snelling Personal information Full name Charles Frederick Theodore Snelling Country represented Canada Born September 17, 1937
TorontoHeight 168 cm (5.51 ft) Skating club Granite Club Medal recordCompetitor for Canada Men's Figure skating World Championships Bronze 1957 Colorado Springs Men's singles North American Championships Silver 1957 Rochester Men's singles Bronze 1955 Regina Men's singles Charles Frederick Theodore Snelling (born September 17, 1937 in Toronto) is a Canadian figure skater. He is the 1954-1958 & 1964 Canadian national champion and the 1957 World bronze medalist.
He placed 8th at the 1956 Winter Olympics. In 1958, he retired to attend medical school at the University of Toronto, but after graduation, he returned to competitive skating and competed at the 1964 Winter Olympics. Charles Snelling lives and works in Vancouver, B.C. as a burns and plastic specialist.
Charles Snelling became a brother of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity (Alpha Phi).
Results
Event 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1964 1965 1966 1967 Winter Olympics 8th 13th World Championships 7th 8th 4th 3rd 11th 12th 11th North American Championships 3rd 2nd Canadian Championships 2nd 1st 1st 1st 1st 1st 1st 2nd 2nd 3rd References
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
Categories:- 1937 births
- Living people
- Canadian male single skaters
- Olympic figure skaters of Canada
- Figure skaters at the 1956 Winter Olympics
- Figure skaters at the 1964 Winter Olympics
- Canadian figure skating biography stubs
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