Anne Vrana-O'Brien

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Anne Marie Vrana-O'Brien (born August 22, 1911 in Schenectady , New York , † July 30, 2007 in Tustin , California ) was an American athlete who competed for the USA at the Olympic Games in 1928 and 1936 and in 1932 set the world record over 80 meter hurdles.

Life

Anne Vrana's parents came from Hungary. The family moved to California when Anne was very young. She began athletics at John C. Fremont High School in Los Angeles. After high school, she joined the Pasadena Athletic Club, which had what was then a rare women's team. At the American Championships in 1927 of the AAU , she appeared nationally for the first time by a 2nd place in the long jump and victory in the 4-by-110-yard relay . Over 100 meters, her best discipline, she was eliminated due to false starts. Vrana qualified as third in the US trials in the 100-meter run for the 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam, where she was third in the preliminary run and could not qualify for the finals.

After the Games, she married Howard O'Brien in 1930, who had also competed in athletics at Fremont High. She then started as Anne O'Brien. O'Brien took on the 80 meter hurdles and set the world record of Marjorie Clark from the previous year with 11.8 s in Pasadena in 1932 . In 1932 she fell on the 4th hurdle at the US Trials as the favorite in front of the two fastest women in the world, Babe Didrikson and Evelyne Hall, later at the Olympic Games . Due to an allergic reaction to the required tetanus vaccination , she could not start more than 100 meters in the semifinals. She was set up as a substitute runner over 80 meter hurdles, but was not used.

O'Brien had a daughter in 1934, but continued her sporting career and qualified as the winner of the 80 meter hurdles in the US Trials in 1936 for the Olympic Games in Berlin . There she could barely qualify for the final as fourth in the semifinals. She started at local sports festivals in California past her 40th birthday.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Anne Vrana-O'Brien Bio, Stats and Results . Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved August 2, 2016.
  2. ^ A b c Hodak, George A .: An Olympian's Oral History: Anne Vrana O'Brien . 1987. Retrieved August 2, 2016.
  3. ↑ a b c d e Tricard, Louise Mead: American Women's Track and Field: A History, 1895 Through 1980, Volume 1 , ISBN 9780786402199 (Retrieved November 29, 2015).
  4. ^ A b c Hymans, Richard: The History of the United States Olympic Trials - Track & Field . USA Track & Field. 2008. Retrieved August 2, 2016.
  5. ↑ Hymans, Richard; Matrahazi, Imre: IAAF World Records Progression (pdf) International Association of Athletics Federations . Retrieved August 2, 2016.
  6. ↑ Arnd Krüger : The Olympic Games 1936 and the world opinion - their importance in foreign policy with particular consideration of the USA. Berlin: Bartels & Wernitz 1972; ISBN 3-87039-925-2
personal data
SURNAME Vrana-O'Brien, Anne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vrana-O'Brien, Anne Marie (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION american sprinter
DATE OF BIRTH August 22, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Schenectady , New York (State)
DATE OF DEATH July 30, 2007
Place of death Tustin (California)