Charles Snelling
Charles Snelling 
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| Full name | Charles Frederick Theodore Snelling | ||||||
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| birthday | September 17, 1937 | ||||||
| place of birth | Toronto | ||||||
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| discipline | Single run | ||||||
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Charles Frederick Theodore Snelling (born September 17, 1937 in Toronto , Ontario ) is a former Canadian figure skater who started in a single run .
The greatest success of the six-time Canadian champion was winning the bronze medal at the 1957 World Championships in Colorado Springs behind the Americans David Jenkins and Tim Brown . At the Olympic Games in 1956 he was eighth. In 1958 he retired from sports to study medicine at the University of Toronto . After graduating, he came back in 1964, was again Canadian champion and took part in the 1964 Olympic Games and two other world championships.
Snelling worked as a plastic surgeon , from 1970 to 1977 in Winnipeg and then in Vancouver .
Results
| Competition / year | 1953 | 1954 | 1955 | 1956 | 1957 | 1958 | 1964 | 1965 | 1966 | 1967 |
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| winter Olympics | 8th. | 13. | ||||||||
| World championships | 7th | 8th. | 4th | 3. | 11. | 12. | 11. | |||
| Canadian Championships | 2. | 1. | 1. | 1. | 1. | 1. | 1. | 2. | 2. | 3. |
Web link
- Charles Snelling in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
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| SURNAME | Snelling, Charles |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Snelling, Charles Frederick Theodore (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian figure skater |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 17, 1937 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Toronto , Ontario |