Jane Manske

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Personal information
Surname: Jane Manske
Nationality: United StatesUnited States United States
Discipline (s) : Art, diving, swimming.
Society: Illinois Women's Athletic Club
Birthday: December 19, 1910
Place of birth: New Orleans , Louisiana
Date of death: May 30, 1989
Place of death: Escondido , California
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Jane Manske (* 19th December 1910 in New Orleans , Louisiana ; † the 30th May 1989 in Escondido , California as Jane Fauntz ) was an American swimmer and water jumper .

Career

Manske was born Jane Fauntz in New Orleans . She grew up in Chicago , where she attended Hyde Park High School. Because of a ban on women in the state of Illinois , Manske, who discovered swimming, could not take part in high school swimming competitions. She then joined the Hirsch Center and later the Illinois Women's Athletic Club as a swimmer and high diver.

Six months before the eliminations for the 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam , Manske was seriously injured in a car accident. She still managed to qualify for the Games, but was eliminated in the semi-finals of the breaststroke competition over 200 meters.

In 1929 Manske managed the feat of winning both the 1-meter board competition and the 100-meter chest title at the national competitions of the Amateur Athletic Union.

At the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles , Manske took part in her favorite discipline, high diving. She led from the 3-meter board after the compulsory jumps, but slipped to 3rd place after a failed freestyle jump and in the end won bronze behind her compatriots Georgia Coleman and Katherine Rawls . The USA won all the medals in diving at these Olympic Games.

Manske managed to capitalize on the sporting success. In addition to appearing as a model and as an advertising medium for various articles, she took part in water shows. During one of these appearances at the 1933 World's Fair in Chicago, she met her future husband, the football player Edgar Manske (1912-2002), whom she married in 1936.

While her husband was drafted into the Navy during World War II , Manske was an artist. She later worked as an art teacher at Los Lomas High School in Walnut Creek, California, while also supervising the school's men's jump team.

Manske died of leukemia in 1989 . She was posthumously inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b JANE FAUNTZ (USA) 1991 Honor Pioneer Swimmer / Diver. International Swimming Hall of Fame, accessed April 29, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Jane Fauntz. In: Sport references. Retrieved April 29, 2020 .
  3. ↑ ANE FAUNTZ MANSKE * JAZZ BAND. Retrieved on April 29, 2020 (English): "[...] he later years in California living in Berkley and Teaching Art for over 20 years [...]"
personal data
SURNAME Manske, Jane
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fauntz, Jane (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American diver
DATE OF BIRTH December 19, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH New Orleans , California
DATE OF DEATH May 30, 1989
Place of death Escondido , California