Ice Skating: Diana loses by fraction of point

$ICE SKATING Diana loses by fraction of point Diana Clifton- Peach, of Streatham, lost her British women's ice skating championship title at Streatham, London. last night , by .6 of a point, the lowest ever margin, to Jacqueline Harbord, another local girl, who two years ago was British junior champion. Miss Harbord, in third place after the compulsory figures earlier in the day, gave a brilliant free skating exhibition to total 1,192.7 points against Miss CliftonPeach's 1,192.1 points. like her rival, seventeen, Miss -Peach, who. had throughout been the handicapped suspected chipped right knee bone following a training accident on Tuesday. KNEE STRAPPED Twice during the day she had visited a specialist for treatment, and she skated with her knee heavily strapped. Although she did not appear handicapped in the school figures, she was obviously feeling the strain in her free skating programme. Nevertheless, Miss Harbord, who was nearly fifty behind before last night's session, did amazingly well to win her first senior title and so make herself an obvious choice for the European and World championships early next year. In third place was Barbara Conniff (Richmond), with another Streatham girl, Carol Warner, fourth, and Shirra Kenworthy (Vancouver) fifth. The vacant men's title was won by Robin Jones (Queen's), the 1959 champion, with a total of 1.239.6 points. The pairs championship was retained by the Richmond couple, Peter Burrows and Valerie Hunt, with 54.2 points. LEADING PLACINGS Harbord Women's (Streatham), championship: 1, points: 2. Miss Miss D. Clifton -Peach (Streatham) 1192 1 points: 3. Conniff (Richmond) 1163 points; Miss Warner (Streatham) points: Miss S. Miss Kewnworthy Stapletord (Canada) (Streatham) 1140•8 8 points; 6. S. 1118-7 points: 7. Miss H. Moir (Paisley) points. Men's championship: 1, C; R. Jones Cannon (Queens) 113•2 points: 1239-6 points: 3. H. L. Evans (Streatham) 1083-7 points. Pairs championship: 1. Burrows and Miss V. Hunt (Richmond), holders. 54:2 points: 2. P. Webb and Miss Jeffery (Streatham) 52:3 points. (Only two couples competed.) at a$

Article from 23 Nov 1961Liverpool Daily Post (Merseyside ed.)(Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

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