Shirley Netherway married name Shirley Parker (19 May 1937 – 6 March 2016) was a British fencer.
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| Nationality | British (English) | |||||||||||||||||
| Born | 19 May 1937 Buckhurst, Essex, England | |||||||||||||||||
| Died | 6 March 2016 (aged 78) | |||||||||||||||||
| Height | 170 cm (5 ft 7 in) | |||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 60 kg (132 lb) | |||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Fencing | |||||||||||||||||
Event | foil | |||||||||||||||||
| Club | Polytechnic Fencing Club | |||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Biography
editShe competed at the 1960 and 1964 Summer Olympics.[1]
After she married in 1965 she competed as Shirley Parker.[2] Parker represented the England team[3] at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Kingston, Jamaica, where she participated in the foil events.[4] She won a gold medal in the team foil with Joyce Pearce and Janet Wardell-Yerburgh, in addition to winning a silver medal in the individual event.[5]
References
edit- ↑ "Shirley Netherway Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 30 October 2010.
- ↑ "1966 Athletes". Team England.
- ↑ "Jay for fifth Empire Games". Coventry Evening Telegraph. 15 June 1966. p. 19. Retrieved 18 December 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ↑ "England Kingston 1966". Commonwealth Games Federation. Archived from the original on 18 October 2021. Retrieved 17 December 2025.
- ↑ "Commonwealth Games Medallists - Fencing". GBR Athletics. Retrieved 18 December 2025.
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