Sharon Kay Burley Sullivan (born 8 May 1956 in
Tripoli
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,
Libya
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) is an Australian
figure skater
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who competed in ladies singles. She finished first at the
Australian Figure Skating Championships
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four times and competed at the
1976 Winter Olympic Games, coming in twentieth.
She now coaches at the Gold Coast ice rink: Iceland, Bundall as the only figure skating Olympian from Queensland.
Burley is the daughter of Olympic figure skater
Nancy Burley
Nancy Burley (8 March 1930 – 7 January 2013) was an Australian figure skater. She represented Australia at the 1952 Winter Olympics, where she placed 14th. She and Gweneth Molony were the first ladies singles skaters to represent Australia at ...
and the sister of Australian champion
Robyn Burley.
Results
References
Sports-reference.com
Australian female single skaters
Olympic figure skaters for Australia
Figure skaters at the 1976 Winter Olympics
1956 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Tripoli, Libya
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