John Nicks

John Allen Wisden Nicks ( born April 22, 1929 in Brighton ) is a former British figure skater and figure skating coach.

His skating partner was his sister Jennifer Nicks. Together they were from 1948 to 1953 the sixth consecutive British champion. Your coaches were Eric W. Hudson and Gladys M. Hogg. Your first international appearance they had at the European Championships in 1947, when they finished sixth. A year later, her debut followed at World Championships and Olympic Games. They were both times eighth. Your first medals won Nicks in 1950 with a bronze at the European Championships in Oslo and silver at the World Championships in London. In 1951 they were both at the European Championships as well as the World Cup third parties. In 1952, the British Vice-European Champion behind Ria Baran and Paul Falk. At the World Championships she won the bronze medal as last year behind the Germans and Karol and Peter Kennedy of the United States. At the Olympic Games in Oslo she missed a medal in fourth. Following the resignation of Falk's and the Kennedys, John and Jennifer Nicks in Dortmund in 1953 European Champion and World Champion in Davos were. They beat the Hungarians Marianne and László Nagy, who were placed at the Olympic Games in the year before them. After her world title, they finished their amateur career and switched to the professionals.

Nicks later went to South Africa to the United States and has lived in Los Angeles since 1961. He was a successful coach. His students included, among others, Peggy Fleming, Tai Babilonia & Randy Gardner, Tiffany Chin, Christopher Bowman, Jenni Meno & Todd Sand, Kristi Yamaguchi & Rudy Galindo and Sasha Cohen.

John Nicks was recorded in 2000 in the Figure Skating Hall of Fame.

Results

Pair of running

( with Jennifer Nicks )

1950 World Figure Skating Championships 1951 World Figure Skating Championships 1952 World Figure Skating Championships 1953 World Figure Skating Championships 1950 European Figure Skating Championships 1951 European Figure Skating Championships 1952 European Figure Skating Championships 1953 European Figure Skating Championships 1947 European Figure Skating Championships 1948 World Figure Skating Championships Peter Kennedy (figure skater) Randy Gardner (figure skater) World Figure Skating Hall of Fame List of Olympic medalists in figure skating 1949 World Figure Skating Championships 1948 European Figure Skating Championships 1949 European Figure Skating Championships Phyllis Johnson James H. Johnson Karl Mejstrik Ludwig Wrede Pierre Brunet (figure skater) Ernst Baier Micheline Lannoy Frances Dafoe Norris Bowden Sissy Schwarz Kurt Oppelt Barbara Wagner Maria Jelinek Otto Jelinek Oleg Protopopov Irina Rodnina Alexander Gennadiyevich Zaitsev Irina Vorobieva Tassilo Thierbach Barbara Underhill Isabelle Brasseur Lloyd Eisler Ingo Steuer David Pelletier Shen Xue Pang Qing Aliona Savchenko Robin Szolkowy Maxim Trankov Olga Orgonista Idi Papez Karl Zwack Marianna Nagy (figure skater) Silvia Grandjean Michel Grandjean Oksana Kazakova Yuko Kavaguti Alexander Smirnov (figure skater) England
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