Courtney Jones

Courtney John Lyndhurst Jones ( born April 30, 1933) is a former British figure skater, who started ice dancing.

First he went to the side of June Markham. Already during his World Cup and European Championship debut, the pair in 1956 the silver medal behind their compatriots Pamela Weight and Paul Thomas. In 1957 they were classified as reigning British champion in Vienna European Champion and World Champion in Colorado Springs. Your title she defended in 1958 at the European Championships in Bratislava and the World Championships in Paris.

As of 1959, Doreen Denny Jones ' new Eistanzpartnerin. With it, he was able to continue his past successes. The pair won all the competitions in which it participated. In 1959 she was a reigning British Champion in Davos European Champion and World Champion in Colorado Springs. Your title she defended in 1960 at the European Championships in Garmisch -Partenkirchen and the World Championships in Vancouver. In 1961 she became European champion in Berlin again. It was her last competition since the World Series was canceled in 1961 in Prague after the plane crash of the U.S. team.

Courtney Jones brought it with his two Eistanzpartnerinnen to a total of four World Cup titles and five European Championship titles. Only Alexander Gorshkov was with six world titles and six Championship titles successful than he.

Jones was in 1980 awarded the basis of merit in the ice dancing the Order of the British Empire. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the International Skating Union and was also president of the British Association of skating. He acted as judge and worked as a costume designer. He advised Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean and was involved in their famous Bolero freestyle. In 1986, he was inducted into the Figure Skating Hall of Fame.

Results

Ice Dancing

( with June Markham )

( with Doreen Denny )

1956 World Figure Skating Championships 1957 World Figure Skating Championships 1958 World Figure Skating Championships 1959 World Figure Skating Championships 1960 World Figure Skating Championships 1956 European Figure Skating Championships 1957 European Figure Skating Championships 1958 European Figure Skating Championships 1959 European Figure Skating Championships 1960 European Figure Skating Championships 1961 European Figure Skating Championships Sabena Flight 548 Aleksandr Gorshkov (figure skater) World Figure Skating Hall of Fame Jean Westwood (figure skater) Pavel Roman Diane Towler Bernard Ford Andrei Bukin Isabelle Duchesnay Paul Duchesnay Alexander Zhulin Gwendal Peizerat Shae-Lynn Bourne Victor Kraatz Isabelle Delobel Olivier Schoenfelder Oksana Domnina Maxim Shabalin Tessa Virtue Scott Moir Meryl Davis Charlie White (figure skater) Anna Cappellini Luca Lanotte Christiane Guhel Jean Paul Guhel Linda Shearman Angelika Buck Erich Buck Sergei Novitski Ekaterina Bobrova Dmitri Soloviev
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