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Donald George Jackson CM OOnt (born April 2, 1940) is a Canadian retired figure skater. He is the 1962 World Champion, four-time Canadian national champion, and 1960 Olympic bronze medallist. At the 1962 World Figure Skating Championships in Prague, Czechoslovakia, he landed the first triple Lutz jump in international competition and won the ...
He also screwed his figure skates directly onto his boots, which added stability and allowed him to do more athletic leaps and jumps. The common practice of the time was to strap the blades onto the boot, but direct attachments of skates based on the designs of the accomplished skater and author, "Captain" Robert Jones had been manufactured in ...
It was invented by American figure skater Jackson Haines. It has been called "one of the most important spins in skating". [ 1 ] According to figure skater John MIsha Petkevich, despite its difficulty to learn and the amount of energy it requires to execute it, "yields immense rewards" [ 1 ] for the skater.
Donald G. Jackson (1943–2003), American filmmaker; Don Jackson (ice hockey) (born 1956), retired ice hockey player; Donald Jackson (pair skater) (born 1986), Canadian pair skater who won gold at the 2007–2008 ISU Junior Grand Prix; Don Jackson (radio personality) (died 2020), Canadian radio personality; Donald Jackson (Canadian politician ...
The World Figure Skating Championships is an annual figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union in which figure skaters compete for the title of World Champion. The 1962 competitions for men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dance took place from March 14 to 17 at the Sportovní hala ČSTV in Prague ...
The following is a list of notable figure skaters who have competed in men's singles.These are skaters who have won a gold, silver, or bronze medal at at least one of the following competitions: the Winter Olympics, the World Figure Skating Championships, the European Figure Skating Championships, the Four Continents Figure Skating Championships, the Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final, the ...