Guy Revell

Who was Guy Revell?

Guy Revell was a Canadian figure skater. He competed in pairs with Debbi Wilkes. The couple captured two Canadian titles, the 1963 North American Championship, and won the silver medal at the 1964 Winter Olympics.

Revell was 6 years older than his partner, who had not yet started to grow when they were paired. By 1963, Wilkes was 5'5" to Revell's 5'4".

They had to withdraw from the 1963 World Figure Skating Championships when Wilkes fell from a lift while posing for press photographs prior to the event. She hit the ice head-first and fractured her skull.

Wilkes and Revell split after the 1964 World Figure Skating Championships. Revell joined the Ice Capades and had a long career skating professionally with Gertrude Desjardins.

In 1966, Wilkes and Revell were advised that the second-place pair in Innsbruck, Marika Kilius and Hans-Jürgen Bäumler had been disqualified after an International Olympic Committee investigation found they had signed pro contracts before the Winter Games. IOC executive James Worrall presented Wilkes and Revell with the silver medals during the Canadian championships in Peterborough, Ont. Later, Kilius and Baumler were reinstated in the record books, but the medals were never redistributed.