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Donald Jackson

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Donald George Jackson (born April 2, 1940) is a Canadian retired figure skater. He is the 1962 World Champion, four-time Canadian national champion, and 1960 Olympic bronze medallist. At the 1962 World Figure Skating Championships in Prague, Czechoslovakia, he landed the first triple Lutz jump in international competition and won the world title. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Donald Jackson is the 19th most popular skater (up from 282nd in 2019), the 228th most popular biography from Canada (up from 1,052nd in 2019) and the most popular Canadian Skater.

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Among SKATERS

Among skaters, Donald Jackson ranks 19 out of 483. Before him are Walter Jakobsson, Åke Seyffarth, Madge Syers, Fred Anton Maier, Tonya Harding, and Dick Button. After him are Oleg Protopopov, Karol Divín, Ludowika Jakobsson, Roald Aas, Lidiya Skoblikova, and Helene Engelmann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Donald Jackson ranks 243. Before him are Thelma Schoonmaker, Nicola Di Bari, Jill St. John, Farooq Leghari, Matthias Habich, and John Mahoney. After him are Count Ingolf of Rosenborg, Smokey Robinson, Ken Jenkins, Philippe Léotard, Roy Ayers, and Aleksandr Ivanchenkov.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Donald Jackson ranks 228 out of 1,622. Before him are Mario Lemieux (1965), Albert S. Ruddy (1930), Douglas Bennett (1918), Pierre Poilievre (1979), Patricia Churchland (1943), and Chris Benoit (1967). After him are James Doohan (1920), Daniel Lavoie (1949), Jon Vickers (1926), Walter Byron (1894), Raymond Massey (1896), and Garth Hudson (1937).

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Among SKATERS In Canada

Among skaters born in Canada, Donald Jackson ranks 1. After him are Suzanne Morrow Francis (1930), Robert Paul (1937), Brian Orser (1961), Barbara Ann Scott (1928), Barbara Wagner (1938), Alexander Hurd (1910), Toller Cranston (1949), Montgomery Wilson (1909), Catriona Le May Doan (1970), Debbi Wilkes (1946), and Karen Magnussen (1952).

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