Debbi Wilkes

Debbi Wilkes
Wilkes in November 2009
Full name	Deborah "Debbi" Wilkes
nation	Canada
birthday	December 16, 1946
place of birth	Toronto, Ontario
size	160 cm
Weight	57 kg
Career
discipline	Pair skating
Partner	Guy Revell
status	resigned
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 1 × 0 × World Cup medals 0 × 0 × 1 ×
winter Olympics silver Innsbruck 1964 Couples  World figure skating championships bronze Dortmund 1964 Couples

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

Her figure skating partner was Guy Revell . Together they became Canadian champions in pair skating in 1963 and 1964. They participated in three world championships. On their debut in Vancouver in 1960 , they finished eleventh in the double victory of their compatriots Barbara Wagner and Robert Paul as well as Maria and Otto Jelinek . In 1962 in Prague they finished fourth when the Jelineks won. They could not contest the 1963 World Cup because Wilkes, posing for the photographers, fell head first onto the ice while lifting and suffered a fractured skull. In 1964 in Dortmund , Wilkes and Revell won the bronze medal behind Marika Kilius and Hans-Jürgen Bäumler as well as Lyudmila Belousova and Oleg Protopopow at their third and final world championship . They had also won bronze behind the two couples shortly before at the 1964 Olympic Games in Innsbruck . In 1964 the couple ended their careers.

In 1966, Wilkes and Revell were informed that the International Olympic Committee had disqualified the silver medalists of the 1964 Olympic Games, Marika Kilius and Hans-Jürgen Bäumler, because they had signed a professional contract before the Winter Games. IOC member James Worrall then presented the couple with the silver medal at the Canadian Championships in Peterborough. In 1987 Kilius and Bäumler were fully rehabilitated by the IOC, but the medals were not exchanged.

Wilkes stayed with figure skating as a television commentator, writer and trainer. She studied psychology and communication science and has worked as the director of marketing and sponsorship for Skate Canada since 2006 .

Results

Pair skating

(with Guy Revell )

Competition / year	1960	1961	1962	1963	1964
winter Olympics					2.
World championships	11.		4th		3.
Canadian Championships	3.	3.	3.	1.	1.

Web links

• Debbi Wilkes in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )