Elizabeth Ann Manley, CM (born August 7, 1965) is a Canadian former competitive figure skater. She is the 1988 Olympic silver medallist, the 1988 World silver medallist and a three-time Canadian national champion.
Early life and training
Manley was born in 1965 in Belleville, Ontario, and raised in Trenton. She is the fourth child and only daughter in her family. Her father's military career necessitated occasionally moving, and when Manley was eight years old, her family moved from Trenton to Ottawa. and the World Championships between 1984 and 1987. At the 1987 Worlds, she was in a position to vie for the world title after compulsory figures and the short program, but a poor result in the long program left her in fourth place overall in the competition.
Entering the 1988 Winter Olympics, few skating know-hows and media analysts considered Manley to be a contender for an Olympic medal. Battling illness, she nevertheless did well in compulsory figures and the short program. Heading into the long program, she was in third place behind the East German skater Katarina Witt and the American skater Debi Thomas. Witt and Thomas were both favourites for the gold medal, and the media had dubbed their rivalry as the "Battle of the Carmens", as both women chose to skate to music from the opera Carmen. Witt skated her long program cleanly but conservatively, and Thomas fell apart in her long program. Elizabeth Manley, however, gave the performance of her career, one so widely recognized as a very special performance that announcer Jim McKay said, "Wouldn't it be great if every human being could have a moment like this once in their lives?" Manley won the long program and came within a fraction of a point of beating Witt for the Olympic title. Her come-from-behind placement made her a national celebrity in Canada.
After winning the silver medal at the 1988 World Championships, Manley retired from amateur skating.
In 1990, Manley published an autobiography: Thumbs Up!; a second volume of autobiography, As I Am: My Life After the Olympics, followed in 1999.
Personal life
Manley married television producer David N. Rosen in June 2019.[https://www.instagram.com/p/BzDcbqhHzGB/]
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Results
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
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! style="background-color: #ffdead; " colspan=10 align=center | International
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! Event
!
! 80-81
! 81–82
! 82–83
! 83–84
! 84–85
! 85–86
! 86–87
! 87–88
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| align=left | Olympics || || || || || 13th || || || || bgcolor=silver | 2nd
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| align=left | Worlds || || || 13th || || 8th || 9th || 5th || 4th || bgcolor=silver | 2nd
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| align=left | Skate America || || || || 8th || || || || ||
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| align=left | Skate Canada || || || 6th || || || || bgcolor=silver | 2nd || bgcolor=gold | 1st || bgcolor=silver | 2nd
|-
| align=left | NHK Trophy || || || || || || 5th || || ||
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| align=left | St. Ivel || || || || || || || || bgcolor=gold | 1st ||
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| align=left | Nebelhorn || || bgcolor=cc9966 | 3rd || || || || || || ||
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! style="background-color: #ffdead; " colspan=10 align=center | International: Junior
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| align=left | Junior Worlds || || || bgcolor=cc9966 | 3rd || || || || || ||
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! style="background-color: #ffdead; " colspan=10 align=center | National
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| align=left | Canadian Champ. || bgcolor=silver | 2nd J || bgcolor=cc9966 | 3rd || bgcolor=silver | 2nd || 4th || bgcolor=silver | 2nd || bgcolor=gold | 1st || bgcolor=silver | 2nd || bgcolor=gold | 1st || bgcolor=gold | 1st
|-
| colspan="10" style="text-align:center;" | <small> J = Junior </small>
|}
See also
- Petra Burka
- Karen Magnussen
- Kaetlyn Osmond
- Joannie Rochette
- Barbara Ann Scott