Anne Pashley

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Anne Pashley medal table

athletics

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Olympic games
silver 1956 Melbourne 4 × 100 m
European championships
bronze 1954 Bern 100 m
Commonwealth Games
silver 1954 Vancouver 4 × 110 yards

Anne Pashley married. Irons (born June 5, 1935 in Skegness , England ; † October 7, 2016 ) was a British sprinter and soprano . She achieved her greatest successes with sprint relays , both at the Olympic Games and at the Commonwealth Games , she won the relay silver.

As British champion over the short sprint distance (100 yards ) in 1953 and 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 silver medal with the English 4-by-110-yard relay (Pashley, Heather Armitage , Shirley Burgess and Shirley Hampton ) and just missed the medal ranks in fourth. At the European Championships, the British relay missed the medal rank as fourth, but in the individual competition over 100 meters they won bronze behind Irina Turowa and Bertha van Duyne .

At the Olympic Games in 1956 Pashley was eliminated over 100 meters in advance, with the British sprint relay ( Heather Armitage , Pashley, June Foulds and Jean Scrivens ) she won silver.

In 1953 she set a new world record in 1: 39.9 s in an international match against the Netherlands with the English 4-by-220-yard relay (Pashley, Jean Newboult , Shirley Hampton and Ann Johnson ) .

After her sports career, Pashley became an opera singer; she was trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and made her debut as a soprano in 1959. She has sung in numerous prestigious operas in Great Britain and Europe; she sang leading roles in numerous BBC recordings.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2016/10/12/anne-pashley-olympic-athlete-and-opera-singer--obituary/
  2. ^ British Athletics Championships 1945-1959. WAAA Championships. In: GBRathletics. Athletics Weekly, 2007, accessed March 18, 2011 .
  3. ↑ Anne Pashley in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
  4. ^ British World Record Breakers. Outdoors. In: GBRathletics. Athletics Weekly, 2007, accessed March 18, 2011 .
  5. ^ Aryeh Oron: Anne Pashley (soprano). In: Bach Cantatas website. September 27, 2008, accessed March 18, 2011 .

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personal data
SURNAME Pashley, Anne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Irons, Anne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British sprinter and soprano
DATE OF BIRTH June 5, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Skegness , England
DATE OF DEATH October 7, 2016