Guy Revell

Guy Revell
Guy Revell with Debbi Wilkes (1964)
Full name	Guy John Revell
nation	Canada
birthday	August 2, 1941
place of birth	Toronto, Ontario
date of death	March 11, 1981
Place of death	Coquitlam, British Columbia
Career
discipline	Pair skating
Partner	Debbi Wilkes
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

Guy John Revell (born August 2, 1941 in Toronto , Ontario , † March 11, 1981 in Coquitlam , British Columbia ) was a Canadian figure skater who started in pair skating .

His figure skating partner was Debbi Wilkes . 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 Revell and Wilkes won the bronze medal behind Marika Kilius and Hans-Jürgen Bäumler as well as Lyudmila Belousova and Oleg Protopopow at their third and last world championship . They had also won bronze behind the two couples shortly before at the 1964 Olympic Games in Innsbruck .

After ending his amateur career in 1964, Revell switched to the professionals and ran for the ice revue Ice Capades together with Gertrude Desjardins .

In 1966, Revell and Wilkes 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.

Guy Revell struggled with emotional problems after his sporting career. He committed suicide in 1981.

Results

Pair skating

(with Debbi Wilkes )

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

Web links

• Guy Revell in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )