Candace Jones

Candace Lynne "Candy" Jones (born March 20, 1955, in Kingston, Ontario) is a Canadian former pair skater. With her husband Don Fraser, she won gold medals at the Canadian Figure Skating Championships in 1975 and 1976 and competed in the 1976 Winter Olympics. They have also won a number of World Championships as professionals. There were known as the first couple to do a one-handed overhead lift, as well as a no-hands death spiral that has yet to be attempted by other pairs. Ice-skating career Jones has won gold medals in Figures, Free Skating, Dance and Pairs in various competitions. She was originally a single skater, but when the pair skater Don Fraser split from his regular partner, he asked Jones to be his pair skating partner after seeing her in a skating ring. The skating pair of Jones and Fraser made their debut at the Canadian Figure Skating Championships in 1974, reaching fourth place that year. That year, the pair also won silver medals at the Grand Prix de Patinage Artistique in France and the Nebelhorn Trophy in Germany. In 1975, they won Gold at the Canadian Figure Skating Championships. At the 1975 World Figure Skating Championships where they finished 11th, the performed for the first time a novel lifting move called the "One Hand Press".