Donald Jackson

Who is Donald Jackson?

Donald George Jackson, CM OOnt 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 in Prague, Czechoslovakia, he landed the first triple lutz jump in international competition and won the competition.

Jackson was coached by Pierre Brunet in New York City, where he lived with the family of 1960 Olympic Champion Carol Heiss.

In 1997, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada. In 2012 he was made a member of the Order of Ontario.

Jackson is the former director of skating and was also a coach at the Minto Skating Club in Ottawa, Ontario.

Donald Jackson was inducted into the Ontario Sports Hall of Fame in 2001.