Donald Jacoby was an American
ice dancer
Ice dance (sometimes referred to as ice dancing) is a discipline of figure skating that historically draws from ballroom dancing. It joined the World Figure Skating Championships in 1952, and became a Winter Olympic Games medal sport in 1976. A ...
. With partner and wife
Andree Anderson, he was the 1958 and 1959
U.S. national champion. They were the 1959
World silver medalists and the 1958 World bronze medalist.
The Jacobys turned professional in 1959 in order to tour with
Holiday On Ice.
["People", ''Skating'' magazine, November 1959]
He was posthumously inducted into the
United States Figure Skating Hall of Fame The United States Figure Skating Hall of Fame serves as a repository for the sport of figure skating. The United States Figure Skating Hall of Fame is where the greatest names in the history of the sport are honored. To be inducted into it is consid ...
in 1997.
Results
Ice Dance
(with
Virginia Hoyns)
(with
Andree Anderson)
References
American male ice dancers
Year of birth missing
Year of death missing
World Figure Skating Championships medalists
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