Hayes Alan Jenkins

Hayes Alan Jenkins

Medal record
Men's figure skating
Competitor for the  United States
Olympic Games
Gold	1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo	Singles

Hayes Alan Jenkins (born March 23, 1933 in Akron, Ohio), an American figure skater, led men's skating for 4 years, 1953-56. He won four consecutive World Figure Skating Championships from 1953 to 1956. He also won the gold medal in the 1956 Winter Olympics, after placing 4th in the 1952 Winter Olympics. His brother David Jenkins won the gold in 1960. Jenkins later married Carol Heiss, the 1956 Olympic silver medalist and the 1960 Olympic gold medalist.^[1]

Competitive highlights

Source:^[2] He attended Colorado College and Harvard Law School. He went on to work for the Goodyear tire company as an international lawyer.^[2]

Notes

References

• Past U.S. Champions - Senior PDF (123 KiB)
• Comitato Olimpico Nazionale Italiano (1956). VII Olympic Winter Games: Official Report (PDF). Cortina d'Ampezzo. Retrieved 2010-03-02. 
• Findling, John E.; Pelle, Kimberly D. (1996). Historical Dictionary of the Modern Olympic Movement. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 0-313-28477-6. Retrieved 2010-03-03.