Violet Cliff

Violet Cliff
Full name	Violet Hamilton Cliff
nation	United Kingdom
birthday	November 2, 1916
place of birth	Bath
date of death	July 2003
Place of death	Winchester
Career
discipline	Pair skating
Partner	Leslie Cliff
Medal table
World Cup medals 0 × 0 × 2 × EM medals 0 × 1 × 0 ×
World figure skating championships bronze Paris 1936 Couples bronze London 1937 Couples  European figure skating championships silver Berlin 1936 Couples

Violet Cliff (born November 2, 1916 in Bath , † July 2003 in Winchester ) was a British figure skater who started in pair skating .

Cliff competed in pair skating with her husband Leslie Cliff . In the period from 1933 to 1937 they took part in four European championships . They won their only medal in Berlin in 1936 when they were runner-up in Europe behind Maxi Herber and Ernst Baier .

From 1936 to 1939 the Cliffs took part in all world championships . In 1936 in Paris and 1937 in London they won the bronze medal behind Herber and Baier and the Austrians Ilse and Erik Pausin .

At their only Olympic Games in 1936 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, they finished seventh.

Results

Pair skating

(with Leslie Cliff )

Competition / year	1933	1934	1935	1936	1937	1938	1939
winter Olympics				7th
World championships				3.	3.	4th	5.
European championships	4th		7th	2.	4th

Web links

• Violet Cliff in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )