Ilsebill Pfenning

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Ilsebill Elisabetta Pfenning , after marriage to Fiechter (born August 17, 1916 , † May 19, 1999 ) was a Swiss high jumper .

At the European Athletics Championships in Vienna in 1938 , Ilsebill Pfenning was sixth with 1.55 m. Originally she was seventh, she moved up after Dora Ratjen was disqualified . Dora Ratjen jumped the world record with 1.70 m in Vienna. Dora Ratjen's world record was later canceled. This revived the old record of 1.65 m, which Jean Shiley and Mildred Didrikson had set up at the 1932 Olympic Games .

After revising the world record lists, Dorothy Odam's jump over 1.66 in 1939 was recognized as a new world record. This service was discontinued in March 1941 by the South African Esther van Heerden . On July 27, 1941, Ilsebill Pfenning then jumped 1.66 m in Lugano . The competition protocol of this competition was in the archives of the Swiss federation. It was not submitted to the World Athletics Federation because the Swiss Federation assumed that Dora Ratjen's world record of 1.70 m was still valid. It was not until the 1970s that the Swiss athletics historian Fulvio Regli discovered the competition protocol. The world association officially recognized the world record in 1976. The certificate of recognition was presented to Ilsebill Fiechter (-Pfenning) in 1976 by the President of the Canton of Ticino.

Ilsebill Pfenning was six times Swiss champion in the high jump from 1936 to 1941, she also won the 100-meter run in 1938 and 1941 and the 60-meter run in 1940. She improved the Swiss national record in six stages from 1.50 m to 1.66 m. In 1969 Beatrice Graber surpassed the 1.66 m national record, the world record had already been improved to 1.71 m in 1943 by the Dutchwoman Fanny Blankers-Koen .

Ilsebill Pfenning was after Mildred Didrikson the second world record holder to jump the roll jump, all other high jumpers of her time used the shear jump .

literature

  • Manfred Holzhausen: world records and world record holders. High jump. Pole vault. Women. Grevenbroich 2010. (especially p. 30f)

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Ekkehard for Megede : Progression of World Best Performances and official IAAF World Records. IAAF 1987. p. 333
personal data
SURNAME Pfenning, Ilsebill
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pfenning, Ilsebill Elisabetta (full name); Fiechter, Ilsebill Elisabetta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss high jumper
DATE OF BIRTH August 17, 1916
DATE OF DEATH May 19, 1999