![]() ![]() Britain’s Dorothy Manley, the silver medallist behind Fanny Blankers-Koen in the 100 metres at the 1948 Olympic Games in London, has died at the age of 94, it has been announced.īorn in Manor Park in London on April 29 in 1927, Manley took up athletics while at school and joined an athletics club at the age of 17.Ī fan of the football club West Ham United, Manley had watched her team win the Football League War Cup at Wembley in 1940 and eight years later she was back in that same stadium, racing for Olympic glory.
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