European Athletics Championships 1938 / Women's high jump

1st European Women's Athletics Championships
discipline	Women's high jump
city	Vienna
Stadion	Prater Stadium
Attendees	21 athletes from 9 countries
Competition phase	September 18
Medalists
gold	Ibolya Csák ( HUN )
silver	Nelly van Balen-Blanken ( NED )
bronze	Feodora zu Solms ( GER )

Prater Stadium on an aerial photo, 1932

The women's high jump at the European Athletics Championships in 1938 was held on September 18, 1938 in Vienna's Prater Stadium.

The European champion was the Hungarian Ibolya Csák . She won ahead of Nelly van Balen-Blanken from the Netherlands . Third place went to the German Feodora zu Solms .

Existing records

World record	1.65 s	Jean Shiley	OS Los Angeles , USA	August 7, 1932
		Mildred Didrikson
Championship record	There was not yet a European championship record.

disqualification

Originally, Dora Ratjen was the official winner of the competition with the new world record height of 1.70 m. However, after it was established that Ratjen was actually a man, the title was stripped of him / her. His real name was Heinrich Ratjen.

final

September 18, 1938

space	Surname	nation	Height (m)	1.50 m	1.55 m	1.58 m	1.61 m	1.64 m	1.67 m
1	Ibolya Csák	Hungary	1.64 CR / NO	-	-	-	O	O	xxx
2	Nelly van Balen-Blanken	Netherlands	1.64 CR / NO	-	xxo	xo	xxo	O	xxx
3	Feodora to Solms	German Empire	1.64 CR / PB	-	-	O	O	xx o	xxx
4th	Dorothy Cosnett	Great Britain	1.58 PB	-	-	? O	xxx
5	Dora Gardner	Great Britain	1.58 PB	-	-	? O	xxx
6th	Ilsebill Pfenning	Switzerland	1.55 PB	-	? O	xxx
7th	Karin Färnström	Sweden	1.55 PB	-	? O	xxx
8th	Wanda Nowak	German Empire	1.50 PB	? O	xxx
DSQ	Dora Ratjen	German Empire
DNS	Gina Spagglari	Italy	-

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  The European champion was the 1936 Olympic champion Ibolya Csák

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  Initially, Dora - actually Heinrich - Ratjen was declared the winner. However, because of her / his intersexuality, this result was later deleted.

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Vienna 1938 from the European Athletics homepage , accessed on March 14, 2019
• Women High Jump European Championship 1938 Vienna on todor66.com, accessed on March 14, 2019
• I European Championship, Vienna 1938 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on March 14, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1938, women high jump on sportschau.de, accessed on March 14, 2019
• 1st European Women's Athletics Championships 1938 in Vienna, Austria from ifosta.de, accessed on March 14, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ After the annexation of Austria by Germany at the time of these European championships, the German flag from that time must be used as a symbol. For a limited period of time, the Republic of Austria did not exist and was part of the German Empire. In Vienna itself, the corresponding flag was waved everywhere, and it is now being used here - even if, as in all other cases, with a certain degree of discomfort.
2. ↑ IAAF world records. High jump women , accessed March 14, 2019
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Stefan Berg: Olympia 1936: Scandal about Dora . In: Der Spiegel . No. 38, September 14, 2009.