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Betty Callaway

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For the 1993–94 season, Torvill and Dean returned to amateur competition following a change in the rules which allowed former professional skaters to regain amateur status, and teamed up with Callaway once again. They won the
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captain William Fittall. She was widowed in 1988 when Fittall died in a house fire. She later reconciled with Callaway, and they remarried in 2003, remaining together until her death.
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also took lessons for approximately six weeks during a school holiday. The competitive skaters she trained included
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ice show as a performer at the age of 16, where she met her future husband Roy Callaway, a principal skater there.
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on 22 March 1928, the daughter of William and Elizabeth Roberts. She grew up in London, where she attended a
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She married Roy Callaway (1917–2014) in 1949. The couple divorced in 1975, and in 1978, she married
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but was turned down because they considered her too tall. She later developed an interest in
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in 1969, where she coached Angelika and Erich Buck to gold at the
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In 1950, Callaway and Roy, now married, became skating coaches at
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five times with various partners, and the Lithuanian couple
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in September 2011 recorded a verdict of accidental death.
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Callaway became the national ice dancing trainer for
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Index

Reading, Berkshire
Seer Green
MBE
figure skating
ice dancing
Jayne Torvill
Christopher Dean
Krisztina Regőczy
András Sallay
Angelika
Erich Buck
Reading, Berkshire
convent school
ballet dancer
Royal Ballet School
ice skating
Bayswater
Blackpool Pleasure Beach
Richmond Ice Rink
Twickenham
Princess Anne
Prince Charles
Yvonne Suddick
Roger Kennerson
European Championships
West Germany
1972 European Championships
world champions
Olympic silver medallists
Jayne Torvill

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