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Dorothy Ada Emerson (nee Shirley) (born 15 May 1939 in Manchester, Great Britain) is a British athlete, who mainly competed in the women's high jump event.[1]

Dorothy Shirley

Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing  Great Britain
Olympic Games
	1960 Rome	High jump
European Championships
	1958 Stockholm	High jump
Representing  England
British Empire & Commonwealth Games
	1966 Kingston	high jump

Athletics career

She competed for Great Britain in the 1960 Summer Olympics held in Rome, Italy, where she won the silver medal in the high jump jointly with Jarosława Jóźwiakowska. It was the fifth straight silver medal for Britain in this event.

She represented England in the high jump at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff, Wales.[2] Four years later she competed in the high jump again at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Perth, Western Australia and then won a silver medal at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Kingston, Jamaica. A fourth consecutive Games appearance came in 1970 during the 1970 British Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh.[3][4][5]

Personal life

She later went into teaching and worked as a PE teacher at Bentham Grammar School in the West Riding of Yorkshire in the early 1970s.

And later continued a successful and influential teaching career as a Primary School Teacher at St. Michael's Primary School in Alkrington, Middleton.

References

External links

• Dorothy Shirley at the International Olympic Committee

На других языках

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Dorothy Ada Shirley (Manchester, 15 maggio 1939) è un'ex altista britannica, vincitrice della medaglia d'argento ai Giochi olimpici di Roma nel 1960.

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