Pauline Borrajo

Pauline Borrajo’s first major success was in 1935 when she won the Manchester Ice Dance Trophy with Australian Sydney Croll, who was later a fellow judge at the 1956 Cortina d’Ampezzo Winter Olympics. Borrajo married Liverpool accountant Joseph Harvey in 1939 but remained known by her maiden name within the skating world. Having been runner-up in the British Ice Dance Championship in 1938 and 1939 with Garry Applebey and Harry Levy respectively, she won the title in consecutive years with Albert “Sonny” Edmonds in 1947 and 1948.

Borrajo went on to become an international skating judge and officiated at the 1952 (mixed pairs} and 1956 (men’s singles) Olympics. At Strasbourg in 1978, Barrajo awarded the first maximum 6.0 for technical merit to a woman in an international championship, when she gave that score to 15-year-old Denise Biellmann of Switzerland during the European Championships. Borrajo presented the Borrajo Cup to the British Skating Associated to be contested by young skaters from all over Britain under the age of 14.