Dorothy Shirley

Dorothy Ada Shirley ( born May 15, 1939 in Manchester ) is a former British high jumper and Olympic medalist.

At 19 she joined the Empire and Commonwealth Games in July 1958 in Cardiff on. She skipped 1.65 meters and finished fourth behind two Australians and a New Zealander. A month later, at the European Championships 1958 in Stockholm, she jumped 1.67 meters. So she won bronze behind the Romanian Iolanda Balas and antretenden for the Soviet Union Taisija sealed Tschik.

At the Olympic Games in Rome in 1960 three athletes jumped in first attempt over 1.71 meters. Dorothy Shirley and Polish Jarosława Jóźwiakowska won with this amount of silver behind Iolanda Balas, who won gold with 1.85 meters and fourteen centimeters ahead.

In September 1962, the European Championships were held in Belgrade. With 1.67 meters Dorothy Shirley was in fourth place when six inches residue won on her compatriot Linda Knowles, the bronze. The end of November at the Empire and Commonwealth Games in Perth occupied Shirley with 1.68 meters in seventh place.

On August 8, 1966 Shirley won with 1.70 meters at the Empire and Commonwealth Games in Kingston silver behind the Australian Michele Brown. Just four weeks later, she was at the European Championships in Budapest in 1966 with 1.65 meters eighth.

After she was eliminated in the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City in qualifying, she won the European Championships in 1969 in Athens with 1.74 meters once the eleventh Patz. Your last major international competition she showed at the Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh in 1970; 1.62 meters has been the Englishwoman again Sixth.

At a height of 1.64 m her competition weight was 56 kg.