Anne Pashley

Anne Pashley behaves. Irons ( born June 5, 1935 in Skegness, England) is a former British sprinter and soprano. Her achievements reached with Sprint seasons, both at the Olympic Games as well as the Commonwealth Games, she won Season silver.

As British champion in the short sprint distance ( 100 yards) in 1953 and in 1954 she qualified for the 1954 European Championships in Bern and the British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Vancouver. At the Commonwealth Games, she won the English 4x110 yards relay ( Pashley, Heather Armitage, Shirley Burgess and Shirley Hampton) and missed the silver medal in fourth place just a medal. At the European Championships, the British squadron missed the medals in fourth place, but in the individual competition, she won the 100m behind Irina Turowa and Bertha van Duyne bronze.

At the 1956 Olympic Games Pashley difference over 100m already in the run- off, with the British sprint relay ( Heather Armitage, Pashley, June Foulds and Jean Scrivens ) she won silver.

1953 she presented at an international match against the Netherlands with the British 4 x 220 yards relay ( Pashley, Jean Newboult, Shirley Hampton and Ann Johnson) set a new world record in 1:39,9 sec on ​​.

After her sports career Pashley was an opera singer; she was trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and made ​​her debut as a soprano in 1959 she sang at numerous renowned operas in the UK and Europe.; she sang leading roles in numerous BBC recordings.