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Athletics At The 1948 Summer Olympics – Women's High Jump
The women's high jump event was part of the track and field athletics programme at the 1948 Summer Olympics. The competition was held on August 7, 1948. The final was won by Alice Coachman of the United States. Records Prior to the competition, the existing World and Olympic records were as follows. The following new Olympic record was set during this competition: Schedule All times are British Summer Time (UTC+1) Results Key: OR = Olympic record References Sources *Organising Committee for the XIV Olympiad, The (1948)The Official Report of the Organising Committee for the XIV Olympiad ''LA84 Foundation''. Retrieved 7 September 2016. {{DEFAULTSORT:Athletics at the 1948 Summer Olympics - Women's high jump Athletics at the 1948 Summer Olympics High jump at the Olympics 1948 in women's athletics Ath Ath (; nl, Aat, ; pcd, Ât; wa, Ate) is a city and municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium. The municipality consists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice Coachman
Alice Marie Coachman Davis (November 9, 1923 – July 14, 2014) was an American Athletics (sport), athlete. She specialized in high jump and was the first black woman to win an Olympic gold medal. Biography Early life and education Alice Coachman was born on November 9, 1923, in Albany, Georgia. She was the fifth of Fred and Evelyn Coachman's ten children. Coachman was unable to access athletic training facilities or participate in organized sports because of the color of her skin. Added to the list of training barriers was her status as a female athlete during a time of widespread opposition to women in sports. She trained using what was available to her, running shoeless along the dirt roads near her home and using homemade equipment to practice her jumping. Coachman attended Monroe, Georgia#Elementary, Monroe Street Elementary School where she was encouraged by her year 5 teacher Cora Bailey and by her aunt, Carrie Spry, despite the reservations of her parents. Upon enrollin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Summer Time
During British Summer Time (BST), civil time in the United Kingdom is advanced one hour forward of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), in effect changing the time zone from UTC±00:00 to UTC+01:00, so that mornings have one hour less daylight, and evenings one hour more. BST begins at 01:00 GMT every year on the last Sunday of March and ends at 01:00 GMT (02:00 BST) on the last Sunday of October. The starting and finishing times of daylight saving were aligned across the European Union on 22 October 1995, and the UK retained this alignment after it left the EU; both BST and Central European Summer Time begin and end on the same Sundays at 02:00 Central European Time, 01:00 GMT. Between 1972 and 1995, the BST period was defined as "beginning at two o'clock, Greenwich mean time, in the morning of the day after the third Saturday in March or, if that day is Easter Day, the day after the second Saturday in March, and ending at two o'clock, Greenwich mean time, in the morning of the day a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emma Reed
Emma Reed (May 30, 1925 – April 4, 2014) was an American athlete. She competed in the women's long jump and the women's high jump at the 1948 Summer Olympics The 1948 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XIV Olympiad and also known as London 1948) were an international multi-sport event held from 29 July to 14 August 1948 in London, England, United Kingdom. Following a twelve-year hiatus ca .... References External links * 1925 births 2014 deaths Athletes (track and field) at the 1948 Summer Olympics American female long jumpers American female high jumpers Olympic track and field athletes for the United States People from Warren County, Mississippi 21st-century American women {{US-highjump-athletics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne-Marie Colchen
Anne-Marie Colchen-Maillet (8 December 1925 – 26 January 2017) was a French track and field athlete and women's basketball player. She became France's first high jump champion at the 1946 European Athletics Championships and held the French record for the event for ten years. She represented France in high jump at the 1948 Summer Olympics. In basketball she was the highest scorer at the 1953 FIBA World Championship for Women, helping France to third place. She was a member of the French national team for the European Women's Basketball Championship in 1950, 1952, 1954 and 1956. Career Born in Le Havre, she joined up with the local sports club, the Association Sportive Augustin Normand (ASAN). Standing at a height of – unusually tall for a woman in that era – she found she had a natural talent for high jump and basketball. Athletics Colchen first emerged as a high jumper in the mid-1940s and she ranked in the world's top twenty in 1944, clearing . [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shirley Gordon (athlete)
Shirley Gordon Olafsson (born Shirley Gordon; 10 April 1927 – 23 November 2019) was a Canadian athlete. She competed in the women's high jump at the 1948 Summer Olympics tying for 11th place. Gordon was born with a deformed left foot. She walked with a limp and used crutches until she was 13. Unable to compete in team sports, she taught herself the high jump. She joined a track club after a friend who was invited insisted that they admit Shirley as well. She married Herbert Olafsson, who was a member of the Canadian National Basketball team. References External links * * on the BC Sports Hall of Fame The BC Sports Hall of Fame is a museum located in BC Place Stadium, at Gate A, the main entrance to the stadium, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It collects, preserves, studies and interprets materials that relate to British Columbia's spo ... 1927 births 2019 deaths Athletes (track and field) at the 1948 Summer Olympics Canadian female high jumpers Olympi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernice Robinson (athlete)
Claudealia Bernice Robinson (February 28, 1927 – October 14, 2019) was an American hurdler. She competed in the women's 80 metres hurdles at the 1948 Summer Olympics. After the Olympics she moved to Cleveland. She continued to compete in Masters athletics under her married name of Bernice Robinson Holland as a thrower. In 1986, she was inducted into the Greater Cleveland Hall of Fame. Bernice was voted to the USATF Masters Hall of Fame The USATF Masters Hall of Fame is the Masters section of the National Track and Field Hall of Fame. It is intended to select worthy athletes from the various divisions of Masters athletics involved in the sports of track and field, road running an ... in 2001.National Masters News, Jan 2002Retrieved Mar 5, 2021 References External links * 1927 births 2019 deaths Athletes (track and field) at the 1948 Summer Olympics American female hurdlers American female high jumpers Olympic track and field athletes for the United State ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carmen Phipps
Carmen Phipps (born 9 October 1927) is a Jamaican athlete. She competed in the women's high jump at the 1948 Summer Olympics The 1948 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XIV Olympiad and also known as London 1948) were an international multi-sport event held from 29 July to 14 August 1948 in London, England, United Kingdom. Following a twelve-year hiatus ca .... References External links * 1927 births Living people Athletes (track and field) at the 1948 Summer Olympics Jamaican female high jumpers Olympic athletes for Jamaica Athletes from Kingston, Jamaica Central American and Caribbean Games gold medalists for Jamaica Competitors at the 1946 Central American and Caribbean Games Central American and Caribbean Games medalists in athletics 20th-century Jamaican women 21st-century Jamaican women {{Jamaica-athletics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simone Ruas
Simone Marie Ruas (10 June 1919 – 14 January 2001) was a French athlete. She competed in the women's high jump at the 1948 Summer Olympics The 1948 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XIV Olympiad and also known as London 1948) were an international multi-sport event held from 29 July to 14 August 1948 in London, England, United Kingdom. Following a twelve-year hiatus ca .... References 1919 births 2001 deaths Athletes (track and field) at the 1948 Summer Olympics French female high jumpers Olympic athletes for France 20th-century French women {{France-highjump-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Iversen
Anne Iversen (12 August 1923 – 6 July 2015) was a Danish athlete. She competed in the women's high jump at the 1948 Summer Olympics The 1948 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XIV Olympiad and also known as London 1948) were an international multi-sport event held from 29 July to 14 August 1948 in London, England, United Kingdom. Following a twelve-year hiatus ca .... References 1923 births 2015 deaths Athletes (track and field) at the 1948 Summer Olympics Danish female high jumpers Olympic athletes for Denmark Place of birth missing {{Denmark-athletics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dora Gardner
Dora Kathleen Gardner (6 May 1912 – June 1994) was an English track and field athlete who competed for Great Britain in the 1948 Olympic Games. She was born in Croydon. In 1948 she finished eighth in the Olympic high jump contest. At the 1938 British Empire Games she won the silver medal in the high jump event. In the long jump competition she finished seventh. In the 1938 European Athletics Championships she finished fifth in the high jump contest and in the 1946 European Championships in Athletics she finished seventh in the high jump event. She died in Bournemouth Bournemouth () is a coastal resort town in the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole council area of Dorset, England. At the 2011 census, the town had a population of 183,491, making it the largest town in Dorset. It is situated on the Southern .... Referencessports-reference.com External links * 1912 births 1994 deaths English female high jumpers British female high jumpers British female lon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ilse Steinegger
Ilse Steinegger (born 8 August 1925) is an Austrian former high jump, high and long jumper who competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics. References 1925 births Living people Austrian female high jumpers Austrian female long jumpers Olympic athletes of Austria Athletes (track and field) at the 1948 Summer Olympics {{Austria-athletics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bertha Crowther
Bertha Crowther (9 December 1921 – 8 August 2007) was a British athlete. She competed in the women's 80 metres hurdles at the 1948 Summer Olympics. She represented England and won a silver medal in the high jump at the 1950 British Empire Games in Auckland Auckland (pronounced ) ( mi, Tāmaki Makaurau) is a large metropolitan city in the North Island of New Zealand. The List of New Zealand urban areas by population, most populous urban area in the country and the List of cities in Oceania by po ..., New Zealand. She also competed in the javelin, long jump and 80 metres hurdles. References External links * 1921 births 2007 deaths Athletes (track and field) at the 1948 Summer Olympics British female hurdlers British female high jumpers Olympic athletes for Great Britain Athletes (track and field) at the 1950 British Empire Games Commonwealth Games silver medallists for England Commonwealth Games medallists in athletics Place of birth missing Medalli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
