Dorothy Shirley
| Medal record | ||
|---|---|---|
Competitor for  United Kingdom
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| Women’s Athletics | ||
| Olympic Games | ||
 | Rome 1960 | High Jump |
| European Championships | ||
 | Stockholm 1958 | High Jump |
Dorothy Ada Shirley (born 15 May 1939 in Manchester, Great Britain) is a British athlete, who mainly competed in the women's high jump event.
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 later went into teaching and worked as a PE teacher at Bentham Grammar School in the West Riding of Yorkshire in the early 1970s.
References
- Kubatko, Justin. "Dorothy Shirley Biography and Olympic Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 2010-01-24.