Sally-Anne Stapleford
Sally -Anne Martine Stapleford (* July 7, 1945 in Worthing, England) is a former British figure skater who started in a single run.
Staplefords father was a hockey player and coach Harvey Stapleford. My maternal grandfather was the comedian Charlie Naughton.
Stapleford, the British champion from 1964 to 1968, won the silver medal behind the Austrian Regine Heitzer at the European Championships 1965 in Moscow. At World Championships, their best result was sixth place in the same year. Twice Stapleford took part in the Olympic Games. 1964 and 1968 she attended each eleventh place.
After the end of her competitive career, she was a referee at the International Skating Union ( ISU). Between 1988 and 2002 she was a member of the technical committee of the ISU and which from 1992 to 2002 chairman. Since 1995 she is also the chairman of the British figure skating association NISA. In the course of the Olympic scandal in the pair competition 2002 she had to give up her post at the ISU. As a result, she and others founded the World Figure Skating Federation WSF, the ISU, however, could not repress. Stapleford remained an outspoken critic of the ISU policy, in particular the new rating system and the associated anonymity of the judges.