 She described that race as particularly exciting as they had beaten the Dutch team, which included Fanny Blankers-Koen.Manley retired from athletics in 1952 after suffering from a thyroid condition.Manley married twice, first in 1949 to Peter Hall, who died in 1973, and then in 1979 to John Parlett, a middle distance runner she knew back from the 1948 Olympics.