Donald George Jackson, (born April 2, 1940) is a

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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 world title.

Biography

Jackson was coached by Pierre Brunet in

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, where he lived with the family of 1960 Olympic Champion

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. He won a bronze medal at the 1960 Winter Olympics at the age of 19. In both 1959 and 1960, he won a silver medal at the World Championships. The 1961 event was cancelled after the tragic plane crash that claimed the lives of many of Jackson's contemporaries in the US figure skating team. He had not been scheduled to attend the championships that year and was luckily not on board the fatal flight. In 1962, at the World Championships in Prague, Czechoslovakia, Jackson became world champion and made history by landing the first triple Lutz in international competition. He was inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame in 1962, and the

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in 1977. Jackson is the former director of skating and was also a coach at the

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in Ottawa, Ontario. In 1997, he was made a Member of the

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. He was inducted into the

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in 2001. In 2004, Jackson was included in the first induction of the

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Athletic Wall of Fame, as part of the 160th Anniversary celebrations. In 2012, he was made a member of the

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. In May 2016, aged 76 years old, Jackson appeared in a couple of Stars on Ice shows in Canada, performing a duet with Kurt Browning. His part included an

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and a waltz jump.

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