Elizabeth Manley

Elizabeth Manley
Elizabeth Manley at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics
Full name	Elizabeth Ann Manley
nation	Canada
birthday	August 7, 1965
place of birth	Belleville, Ontario
size	152 cm
Weight	49 kg
Career
society	Gloucester FSC
Trainer	Sonya Klopfer, Peter Dunfield
status	resigned
End of career	1988
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 1 × 0 × World Cup medals 0 × 1 × 0 ×
winter Olympics silver Calgary 1988 Ladies  World figure skating championships silver Budapest 1988 Ladies

Elizabeth Ann Manley , CM (born August 7, 1965 in Belleville , Ontario ) is a former Canadian figure skater who started in a single run .

Elizabeth Manley began figure skating as a young child. She has three older brothers. She also tried ice dancing for a while with her brother Greg . She is the cousin of former 2002 Canadian Vice Prime Minister John Manley . Because of the military profession of the father, Bernard Joseph Manley, the family had to move often. When Manley was nine years old, the family moved to Ottawa . There her parents divorced and Manley stayed with her mother, Joan, who promoted her daughter's figure skating career.

In 1982 she finished 13th in her first world championship . Otherwise this year was not very successful and therefore Manley moved to Lake Placid , New York , to train more intensively there. However, she did not feel well there and was homesick, and she also gained weight. At the Canadian Championships in 1983 Manley won no medal and then took a break from the sport. The coaching couple Sonya and Peter Dunfield then brought them back onto the ice. 1984 Manley then took part in the Winter Olympics for the first time . At the world championships from 1984 to 1987, she always placed in the top ten, but could not win a medal. In 1987 this was particularly bitter, as she dropped to fourth place due to a poor free routine after she had fought for the title after the compulsory and the short program. In 1985, 1987 and 1988 Manley became Canadian champion. At the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary , Manley surprisingly won the silver medal. The professional world had only prepared for a duel between Katarina Witt and Debi Thomas , the "Battle of the Carmens", since both ran in the freestyle to Bizet's Carmen . But Manley won the freestyle in an impressive way and was only extremely close behind Katarina Witt in the final ranking. At the subsequent World Cup in Budapest , she repeated this result and thus won her only World Championship medal.

In 1988 Elizabeth Manley ended her amateur career and switched to the professionals. She appeared in a few ice revues. Today she works as a figure skating coach and occasionally as a sports commentator.

In 1988 she received Canada's highest civilian honor, membership in the " Order of Canada ".

In 1990 Manley published her first autobiography "Thumbs Up!", Followed in 1999 by her second called "As I Am: My Life After the Olympics".

In August 2006, Manley married Brent Theobald, a former ice hockey player. They live together in Ottawa.

Since 2009, Manley has been the official spokesperson for a Canadian initiative to fight ovarian cancer. Manley's mother died of the disease in 2008.

Results

Competition / year	1981	1982	1983	1984	1985	1986	1987	1988
winter Olympics				13.				2.
World championships		13.		8th.	9.	5.	4th	2.
Junior World Championships	3.
Canadian Championships	3.	2.	4th	2.	1.	2.	1.	1.

Web links

• Elizabeth Manley in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• fan page