Megan Taylor

Megan Olwen Devenish Taylor ( born October 25, 1920 in Rochdale, England; † July 23, 1993 in Jamaica) was a British figure skater who started in a single run. It is the world champion of 1938 and 1939.

Megan Taylor 's father Phil was speed skater. Together with Cecilia Colledge they dominated the British figure skating with the ladies. At the 1932 Olympic Games in Lake Placid, the two eleven year old English girls were the youngest participants in the Winter Games ever. The one months older Taylor placed seventh as a place before Colledge. Also in the British Championships won Taylor 1932-1934 respectively before Colledge, while from 1937 to 1939 and narrowly lost her runner-up was.

In European Championships Colledge Taylor could never conquer. In 1936, she won the bronze medal and at the European Championships in 1937, 1938 and 1939, she was Vice - European Champion behind Colledge. Also at the World Championships, she won three silver medals in 1934 and 1936, she became vice - world champion behind Sonja Henie - Series World Champion from 1927 to 1936 - and in 1937 behind Colledge. This could, however, beat in the World Cup 1938 in Stockholm and was thus for the first time world champion. Your title she defended at the World Championship 1939 in Prague, where Colledge was missing through injury, before Hedy Stenuf ( Austria ) and compatriot Daphne Walker.

The target of her professional career was thwarted by the Second World War. She toured with the show Ice Capades later.

Results

1934 World Figure Skating Championships 1936 World Figure Skating Championships 1937 World Figure Skating Championships 1938 World Figure Skating Championships 1939 World Figure Skating Championships 1936 European Figure Skating Championships 1937 European Figure Skating Championships 1938 European Figure Skating Championships 1939 European Figure Skating Championships Single skating Winter Olympic Games Daphne Walker (figure skater) 1932 World Figure Skating Championships 1933 World Figure Skating Championships 1934 European Figure Skating Championships Lily Kronberger Barbara Ann Scott Jeannette Altwegg Jacqueline du Bief Tenley Albright Gundi Busch Carol Heiss Petra Burka Peggy Fleming Gabriele Seyfert Trixi Schuba Karen Magnussen Christine Errath Dianne de Leeuw Dorothy Hamill Elaine Zayak Rosalynn Sumners Debi Thomas Jill Trenary Kristi Yamaguchi Chen Lu Michelle Kwan Kimmie Meissner Carolina Kostner
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