About Dorothy Shirley
Dorothy Ada Emerson is a former British athlete, who mainly competed in the women's high jump event. Shirley became the national high jump champion after winning the British WAAA Championships title at the 1960 WAAA Championships. Shortly afterwards Shirley 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. Shirley became a teacher and worked as a PE teacher at Bentham Grammar School in the West Riding of Yorkshire in the early 1970s.
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