Betty Callaway

Betty Daphne Callaway-Fittall, MBE (née Roberts; 22 March 1928 – 27 June 2011) was an English figure skating coach who specialised in ice dancing.

[4] She joined the Blackpool Pleasure Beach ice show as a performer in 1944, at the age of 16, where she met her future husband Roy Callaway, a principal skater there.

[5] Callaway became the national ice dancing trainer for West Germany in 1969,[1] where she coached Angelika and Erich Buck to gold at the 1972 European Championships.

[5] After returning to the UK she coached Hungarian couple Krisztina Regőczy and András Sallay, who were world champions and Olympic silver medallists in 1980.

[4] Torvill and Dean dominated ice dancing between 1981 and 1984, winning four consecutive World Championships and gold at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo,[5] where they received 12 maximum 6.0 marks for their free programme.

[5] During the 1990s, Callaway coached Marika Humphreys, who won the British National Championships five times with various partners,[5] and the Lithuanian couple Margarita Drobiazko and Povilas Vanagas.