Debbi Wilkes

Deborah " Debbi " Wilkes ( born December 16, 1946 in Toronto, Ontario ) is a former Canadian figure skater who started in pair skating.

Your figure skating partner, Guy Revell. Together they were 1963 and 1964 Canadian champion in pair skating. They participated in three World Cups. At her debut in 1960 in Vancouver, they were in the double victory of their countrymen Barbara Wagner and Robert Paul and Maria and Otto Jelinek Eleventh. 1962 in Prague, she occupied in the victory of Jelinek's already the fourth. The World Cup 1963, she could not deny, since Wilkes, posing for photographers at a elevation rushed forward with his head on the ice and suffered a fractured skull. 1964 in Dortmund won Wilkes and Revell then in their third and final world championship bronze behind Marika Kilius and Hans -Jürgen Baumler and Lyudmila Belousova and Oleg Protopopov. The profit of bronze behind the two couples had them recently succeeded at the Olympic Games 1964 in Innsbruck. 1964 ended the couple his career.

In 1966, Wilkes and Revell informed that the International Olympic Committee had the silver medalist of the Olympic Games in 1964, Marika Kilius and Hans-Jürgen Baumler, due to the signing of a professional contract before the Winter Games, disqualified. The IOC member James Worrall handed the pair subsequently at the Canadian championships in Peterborough the silver medal. In 1987 Kilius and Baumler by the IOC fully rehabilitated, but the medals were not changed back again.

Wilkes was the figure skating as Fernsehkommentatorin, author and trainer received. She studied psychology and communication science and since 2006 works as director of marketing and sponsorship division of Skate Canada.

Results

Pair of running

( with Guy Revell )