Doug Anakin

Thomas Douglas ( " Doug " ) Anakin ( born November 6, 1930 in Chatham, Ontario) is a former Canadian bobsledders and lugers. He was Olympic champion in 1964 in the four-man event.

Career

Anakin studied at Queen 's University. After that he worked as a sports teacher and worked as a coach in the sports of wrestling, football and skiing operates. At the beginning of the 1960s, the passionate climbers began to be interested in bobsledding. Before the Olympic Winter Games 1964, he joined the Canadian Viererbobteam, which also Victor Emery, John Emery and Peter Kirby belonged.

As high as a house favorite for the victory, the Austrians and Italians were. The Canadians could train only four times on the Olympic bobsleigh run Igls, unlike many competitors who had arrived a week earlier. Quite surprisingly, undercut the Canadians in the first run the track record, held up to the end at the top and won the gold medal. Anakin also took part in the single-seater competition of sledders, but could not finish the race.

In 1967, Anakin back from the top-level sport. From 1971 until his retirement in 1990 he taught at the renowned John Abbott College. He became one of the main promoters of tobogganing in Canada. At the Olympic Winter Games Sapporo in 1972 he was the coach of the Canadian luge team. Named after him is a scholarship program of the John Abbott College.