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Athletics At The 1936 Summer Olympics – Women's High Jump
The women's high jump event was part of the track and field athletics programme at the 1936 Summer Olympics. The competition was held on August 9, 1936. The final was won by Ibolya Csák of Hungary. Gretel Bergmann Gretel Lambert (born Margarethe Bergmann; April 12, 1914 – July 25, 2017)Athletics at the 1936 Summer Olympics High jump at the Olympics [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ibolya Csák
Ibolya Csák (6 January 1915 – 9 February 2006) was a Hungarian athlete. Career Csák was best known as the winner of the women's high jump at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. She won a gold medal in the European Championships in Athletics in 1938 in unusual circumstances. She was the first Hungarian woman to win a gold medal in both events. Her win in the 1936 Olympics was one of the tightest in the history of high jumping. Three athletes cleared 160 cm but none cleared 162. The three competitors were offered a fourth opportunity and Csák was the only one to clear the height. She was a Hungarian Jew; she was one of a number of Jewish athletes who won medals at the Olympics in Berlin in 1936. Csák won the gold medal in the 1938 European championships after the original winner, Germany's Dora Ratjen, turned out to be a man. The height Csák cleared in that event was the Hungarian record for the high jump for the next 24 years. She won nine Hungarian titles in all, includin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doris Carter
Doris Jessie Carter, OBE (5 January 1912 – 28 July 1999) was an Australian military officer, public servant, and athlete who specialised in the high jump. She was ranked as one of the top 3 Women's high jumpers from 1934 to 1936. She was the first Australian female track and field athlete to compete in an Olympic Games final. She was inducted into the Athletics Australia Hall of Fame in 2022. Carter placed 6th in the 1936 Olympics in Berlin and also competed in the 1938 British Empire Games in Sydney. She won six National Championships at high jump (1932, 1933, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1940) and two at discus throw (1936, 1940) in her career. Carter served as president of the Victorian Women's Amateur Athletic Association (1945–48) and Australian Women's Amateur Athletic Union (1948) and (1952–61). In 1956 Carter was the Assistant Manager to the Australian Olympic Team during the Melbourne Olympic Games. Carter was also prominent with the Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
High Jump At The Olympics
The high jump at the Summer Olympics is grouped among the four track and field jumping events held at the multi-sport event. The men's high jump has been present on the Olympic athletics programme since the first Summer Olympics in 1896. The women's high jump was one of five events to feature on the first women's athletics programme in 1928, and it was the only jumping event available to women until 1948, when the long jump was permitted. The Olympic records for the event are for men, set by Charles Austin in 1996, and for women, set by Yelena Slesarenko in 2004. Gerd Wessig is the only man to have set a world record in the Olympic high jump, having done so in 1980 with a mark of . The women's world record has been broken on three occasions at the Olympics, with records coming in 1928, 1932 and 1972. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irja Lipasti
Irja Salli Maria Sarnama (born Lipasti 27 September 1905 – 18 April 2000) was a Finnish sprinter. She competed in the women's 4 × 100 metres relay, High Jump and javelin throw at the 1936 Summer Olympics. She also competed in the 1938 European Championships as Finland's first female representative to that event. She set the Finnish record for the high jump in 1933 at 1.50m. Her record lasted until 1951. Under the name Irja Sarnama, she continued to excel into Masters athletics Masters Athletics managed by World Masters Athletics is a class of the sport of athletics (sport), athletics for athletes of 35 years of age and over organized by World Masters Athletics. The events include track and field, road running and cross ..., setting numerous world records across a variety of disciplines; sprints, jumps and throws. References External links * 1905 births 2000 deaths Athletes (track and field) at the 1936 Summer Olympics Finnish female sprinters Finnish f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Junko Nishida
was a Japanese athlete. She competed in the women's high jump at the 1936 Summer Olympics The 1936 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XI Olympiad () and officially branded as Berlin 1936, were an international multi-sport event held from 1 to 16 August 1936 in Berlin, then capital of Nazi Germany. Berlin won the bid to .... References External links * 1915 births Year of death missing Place of birth missing Japanese female high jumpers Olympic female high jumpers Olympic athletes for Japan Athletes (track and field) at the 1936 Summer Olympics Japan Championships in Athletics winners 20th-century Japanese sportswomen {{Japan-highjump-athletics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tini Koopmans
Tini Koopmans (26 May 1912 – 17 December 1981) was a Dutch athlete. She competed in the women's high jump and the women's discus throw at the 1936 Summer Olympics The 1936 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XI Olympiad () and officially branded as Berlin 1936, were an international multi-sport event held from 1 to 16 August 1936 in Berlin, then capital of Nazi Germany. Berlin won the bid to .... References 1912 births 1981 deaths Athletes (track and field) at the 1936 Summer Olympics Dutch female high jumpers Dutch female discus throwers Olympic athletes for the Netherlands Sportspeople from Groningen (city) Athletes from Groningen (province) 20th-century Dutch sportswomen {{Netherlands-athletics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catherine Stevens (athlete)
Catherine Stevens (born 7 August 1917, date of death unknown) was a Belgian athlete. She competed in the women's high jump at the 1936 Summer Olympics The 1936 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XI Olympiad () and officially branded as Berlin 1936, were an international multi-sport event held from 1 to 16 August 1936 in Berlin, then capital of Nazi Germany. Berlin won the bid to .... She tied for 14th place in the event with a jump of 1.4 meters. Stevens is deceased. References External links * 1917 births Year of death missing Athletes (track and field) at the 1936 Summer Olympics Belgian female high jumpers Olympic athletes for Belgium Place of birth missing {{Belgium-athletics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nellie Carrington
Eleanor Elizabeth Carrington (27 August 1916 – 7 October 1998) was a British athlete who competed at the 1936 Summer Olympics. Biography Carrington finished second behind Phyllis Bartholomew in the long jump event and third behind Mary Milne in the high jump event at the 1933 WAAA Championships. Carrington finished second behind Ethel Raby in the long jump event at the 1935 WAAA Championships and was second again at the 1936 WAAA Championships The 1936 WAAA Championships were the national track and field championships for women in the United Kingdom. The 1 mile event was held for the first time. The event was held at White City Stadium, London, on 18 July 1936. Results See al ... in both the high jump and long jump events. At the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, she competed in the women's high jump competition. References 1916 births 1998 deaths Athletes (track and field) at the 1936 Summer Olympics British female high jumpers Olympic athletes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wanda Nowak
Wanda Nowak (16 January 1913 – 30 April 1977) was an Austrian athlete. She competed in the women's high jump at the 1936 Summer Olympics The 1936 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XI Olympiad () and officially branded as Berlin 1936, were an international multi-sport event held from 1 to 16 August 1936 in Berlin, then capital of Nazi Germany. Berlin won the bid to .... References External links * 1913 births 1977 deaths Athletes (track and field) at the 1936 Summer Olympics Austrian female high jumpers Olympic athletes for Austria Place of birth missing {{Austria-athletics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Bell (athlete)
Mary Margaret Bell (later Ryan and Gibson, January 26, 1917 – May 10, 1996) was a Canadian athlete who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics. She was born in Seven Persons, Alberta. At the 1934 Empire Games she won the bronze medal in the high jump competition and later that year the silver medal at the 1934 Women's World Games The 1934 Women's World Games () were the fourth edition of the international games for women. The tournament was held between 9–11 August at the White City Stadium in London, United Kingdom.Olympic high jump event. She finished fourth in the high jump contest at the 1938 Empire Games. She died in 1996, aged 79. References < ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kathlyn Kelley
Kathlyn Kelley Owens (August 30, 1919 – September 12, 2006) was an American athlete who competed at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin. At the women's high jump competition she placed a joint 9th after making 1.50m, but failing to clear 1.55m. Born in Seneca, South Carolina, she was never on the track team at high school, but was coached by school principal Julian Davis, who encouraged her to try out for the Olympics and found track coaches from Clemson University to work with her. At the 1936 United States Women's Olympic Trials she tied for third place, which led to a jump-off against Ida Myers that left Kelley with a bronze medal from the event and a spot on the national Olympic team. It was the last women's jump-off at an American Olympic trial until 2000. Despite having made the team, however, she needed to raise $500 to fund her trip, which she found difficult owing to the Great Depression. Davis, however, called upon South Carolina state senator Harry I. Hughes to convin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice Arden (athlete)
Alice Jean Arden-Hodge (July 23, 1914 – March 1, 2012) was an American athlete who competed in the women's high jump event at the Olympic games in Berlin in 1936. Raised in Long Island, New York, Arden won ten athletic letters during her high school career across several different sports. The only woman from the New York City area to have been selected for the 1936 Summer Olympics women's team, Arden placed ninth in the high jump event and never competed in the sport again. Soon after, she married basketball player Russell Hodge and together they had three children, one of whom was Russ Hodge, a decathlete at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. As of 2008, Arden and Hodge's participation make them the only mother-son Olympians in American history. Early life Arden was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, but grew up in Long Island, New York. Her father, Ray Arden, was an inventor who held over 400 patents. During her athletic career at Baldwin High School in New York, she w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
