Megan Taylors' father Phil was a speed skater and a show skater on ice skates with stilts. She already performed with him as a child in shows, e.g. B. in Switzerland. Together with Cecilia Colledge , she dominated British figure skating for women. At the 1932 Olympic Games in Lake Placid , the two eleven-year-old English women were the youngest ever to take part in the Winter Games . One month older, Taylor finished seventh, one place ahead of Colledge. Also at the British Championships Taylor won from 1932 to 1934 each time before Colledge, while she was narrowly defeated her from 1937 to 1939 and was runner-up.
At the European Championships Taylor could never defeat Colledge. In 1936 she won the bronze medal and at the European Championships in 1937 , 1938 and 1939 she was vice-European champion behind Colledge. She also won silver three times at world championships , in 1934 and 1936 she was runner-up behind Sonja Henie - the serial world champion 1927–1936 - and in 1937 behind Colledge. However, she was able to beat this at the World Cup in Stockholm in 1938 and thus became world champion for the first time. She defended her title at the 1939 World Championships in Prague , where Colledge was absent due to injury, before Hedy Stenuf (Austria) and compatriot Daphne Walker .
The professional career she was aiming for was thwarted by the Second World War . She later toured on the Ice Capades show in
1947. She married R. Lindsay Mandeville-Ellis.
United Kingdom
