Anne Pashley
| Medal record | ||
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Representing  United Kingdom
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| Women’s Athletics | ||
| Olympic Games | ||
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Melbourne 1956 | 4x100m Relay |
| European Championships | ||
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Berne 1954 | 100 metres |
Anne Pashley (5 June 1935 – 7 October 2016) was a British track and field sprinter, who represented Great Britain at the 1956 Summer Olympics. Following her track and field career, she made a second career as a soprano.
Pashley was born on 5 June 1935 in Skegness, Lincolnshire, the younger of two daughters of Roy Pashley, an English teacher, and his wife Milly Pashley, who ran a holiday camp. She attended school in Great Yarmouth, where her athletic skills came to attention.
In 1953, at the AAA championships in White City, Pashley equalled the British women's 100-yard record of 10.8 seconds. She took the bronze medal at the 1954 European Championships in Berne, Switzerland in the women's individual 100 metres, behind Irina Turova (Soviet Union) and Bertha van Duyne (Netherlands). At the 1956 summer Olympics, she and her teammates Jean Scrivens, June Foulds and Heather Armitage won the silver medal in the women's 4 × 100 m relay. Pashley retired from athletic competition soon after the Melbourne Olympics.
Pashley them embarked on a second career as an opera singer, as a soprano. She studied at the Guildhall School of Music, and made her stage debut in 1959. She made her debut at Glyndebourne as the Second Boy in Die Zauberflöte in 1962, with her Covent Garden debut as a bridesmaid in Le nozze di Figaro in 1963 and Barbarina in the same opera the following year, going on to sing a wide rang of roles at the Royal Opera House, from a Page in Lohengrin, Berta in Il barbiere di Siviglia, a niece in Peter Grimes, Amor in Orfeo ed Euridice, Karolka in Jenůfa, Ascanius in The Trojans, Emma in Khovanshchina, A Flower Maiden in Parsifal, Mercédès in Carmen, Feódor in Boris Godunov and two roles in the world premiere of We Come to the River.
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