Elizabeth Manley

Elizabeth Manley
Elizabeth Manley at the 2010 Winter Olympics
Personal information
Country represented	Canada
Born	(1965-08-07) August 7, 1965 (age 51) Trenton, Ontario
Height	1.52 m (5 ft 0 in)
Former coach	Peter Dunfield, Sonya Klopfer
Former skating club	Gloucester Skating Club
Former training locations	Orleans, Ontario
Retired	1988
Medal record Representing  Canada figure skating: Ladies' singles Winter Olympics 1988 Calgary Ladies' singles World Championships 1988 Budapest Ladies' singles World Junior Championships 1982 Oberstdorf Ladies' singles

Elizabeth Ann Manley, CM (born August 7, 1965) is a Canadian former competitive figure skater. She is the 1988 Olympic silver medalist, the 1988 World silver medalist, and a three-time Canadian national champion.

Manley was born in 1965 in Trenton, Ontario, the fourth child and only daughter in her family. Her father's military career necessitated occasionally moving, and when Manley was nine years old, her family moved from Trenton to Ottawa. After her parents' divorce in the 1970s, she was raised by her mother, Joan.

Manley began skating at an early age. Her mother invested much time and money in her daughter's figure skating career.

Manley won the bronze medal at the 1982 World Junior Championships in Oberstdorf, Germany. Later that season, she competed at her first senior World Championships and finished 13th in Copenhagen, Denmark.

In the 1982–83 season, Manley relocated from Ottawa to Lake Placid, New York to receive more intensive training but became depressed and homesick, which resulted in her hair falling out and weight gain. She finished off the podium at the Canadian Championships and briefly dropped out of the sport, but resumed her skating career after Peter Dunfield and Sonya Dunfield agreed to coach her in Ontario. They worked with her at the Gloucester Skating Club in Orleans, Ontario.