Otto Gold

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Otto Gold figure skating
nation CzechoslovakiaCzechoslovakia Czechoslovakia
birthday
Career
discipline Single run
status resigned
Medal table
EM medals 0 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
ISU European figure skating championships
silver Berlin 1930 Men's
 

Otto Gold (born November 2, 1918 , † July 8, 1999 ) was a Czechoslovak figure skater and figure skating coach.

Gold had his only appearance at a major international championship as a single runner at the 1930 European Championships in Berlin . He won the silver medal behind Karl Schäfer .

In 1938 Gold emigrated to Canada and began a 40-year coaching career with the Minto Skating Club. There he acted as one of the first coaches for Barbara Ann Scott . In 1940 he founded Canada's first summer ice skating school in Kitchener . Further coaching positions led gold to Vancouver , Toronto , Connecticut and Lake Placid . Even Donald Jackson and his daughter Frances were pupils from him. Gold, who placed great emphasis on discipline in the compulsory figures, helped numerous North American figure skaters to international titles. Gold was among the first to be inducted into the Canadian Figure Skating Hall of Fame in 1990.

Results

Competition / year 1930
European championships 2.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 1990 Canadian Figure Skating Hall of Fame Induction . Skate Canada , accessed July 31, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Gold, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czechoslovak figure skater
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
DATE OF DEATH 20th century or 21st century