Figure Skating Career
Jelinek competed as a pair skater with his sister, Maria. They are the 1962 World Champions, the 1961 North American national champions, and 1961-1962 Canadian national champions. They represented Canada at the 1960 Winter Olympics, where they placed 4th. The pair were the first to perform lifts with several rotations, and also performed side-by-side double jumps.
After they won the World Championships in 1962, the Jelineks retired from competition, and toured professionally with Ice Capades. In late 1963, Jelinek became engaged to Darlene Streich, an American ice dancer who went on to win the U.S. Championships in that discipline in 1964.
The Jelineks were inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame in 1962 and into the Skate Canada Hall of Fame in 1994.
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