1936 Summer Olympics / Athletics - High Jump (Women)
sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | high jump | ||||||||
gender | Women | ||||||||
Attendees | 17 athletes from 12 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Olympiastadion Berlin | ||||||||
Competition phase | August 9, 1936 | ||||||||
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The women's high jump at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin was held on August 9, 1936 in the Berlin Olympic Stadium. 17 athletes took part.
The Olympic champion was the Hungarian Ibolya Csák, ahead of the British Dorothy Odam and the German Elfriede Kaun .
Existing records
- World record : 1.65 m - Jean Shiley / Mildred Didrikson (both USA ), Los Angeles , August 7, 1932
- Olympic record : 1.65 m - Jean Shiley / Mildred Didrikson (both USA ), in the Olympic final in Los Angeles , August 7, 1932
Conducting the competition
The high jump was carried out on August 9th with all participants. The applied jumping heights can be found in the table below.
Note: It is not known which of their three attempts the participants mastered the jumped height up to and including a height of 1.58 m.
Course of the competition and result
August 9, 1936, 3 p.m.
Weather conditions: sunny, 21–22 ° C, wind speed 1.3–1.6 m / s
The favorite for the win was the British Dorothy Odam, later Dorothy Tyler, who jumped 1.65 m before the games, which would actually have meant setting the world record. But their achievement was not officially recognized.
The Olympic victory was determined in the playoff after three jumpers had mastered exactly the 1.60 m that the non-nominated Gretel Bergmann had jumped before the games - see below: The Hungarian Ibolya Csák was the only one to manage 1.62 m. Dorothy Odam won silver and bronze went to the German champion Elfriede Kaun. The Olympic record of 1.65 m set by Jean Shiley and Mildred Didrikson in the previous games was not reached.
Ibolya Csák won the first Hungarian woman gold medal in athletics.
Dorothy Odam and Elfriede Kaun won their countries' first medals in the women's high jump .
The German Dora Ratjen took fourth place with 1.58 m. Two years later, she / he was found to have male genitals that had been tied upward during competition. As a result, he / she was deprived of all results achieved and the right to start further women’s competitions.
space | Surname | nation | 1.30 m | 1.40 m | 1.50 m | 1.55 m | 1.58 m | 1.60 m | 1.62 m | Bottom line | annotation |
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1 | Ibolya Csák | Hungary | O | O | O | O | O | xo | xxx | 1.60 m | 1.62 m in the jump-off with Dorothy Odam and Elfriede Kaun |
2 | Dorothy Odam | United Kingdom | O | O | O | O | O | xo | xxx | 1.60 m | 1.60 m in the jump-off with Ibolya Csák and Elfriede Kaun |
3 | Elfriede Kaun | German Empire | O | O | O | O | O | xo | xxx | 1.60 m | ogV in the jump-off with Ibolya Csák and Dorothy Odam |
4th | Marguerite Nicolas | France | O | O | O | O | O | xxx | 1.58 m | ||
5 | Fanny Koen | Netherlands | O | O | O | O | x | 1.55 m | |||
Doris Carter | Australia | O | O | O | O | x | |||||
Annette Rogers | United States | O | O | O | O | x | |||||
8th | Alice Arden | United States | O | O | O | x | 1.50 m | ||||
Margaret Bell | Canada | O | O | O | x | ||||||
Nellie Carrington | United Kingdom | O | O | O | x | ||||||
Kathlyn Kelley | United States | O | O | O | x | ||||||
Wanda Nowak | Austria | O | O | O | x | ||||||
13 | Jantina Koopmans | Netherlands | O | O | x | 1.40 m | |||||
Junko Nishida | Japan | O | O | x | |||||||
Catherine Stevens | Belgium | O | O | x | |||||||
16 | Irja Lipasti | Finland | O | x | 1.30 m | ||||||
DSQ | Dora Ratjen | German Empire | O | O | O | O | O |
Sport under the sign of National Socialism
A special chapter was the way the German sports associations deal with their Jewish athletes. This becomes particularly clear in the example of the high jumper Gretel Bergmann . Over and over again in previous years obstacles were put in her way in order to be able to practice her sport. Nevertheless, she managed to set the German record in the Olympic year with 1.60 m. But the National Socialist regime ensured that she was not allowed to participate in the German championships . She was certainly not nominated for the Olympic Games. She soon emigrated to the United States, where she continued to practice her sport very successfully for two years.
literature
- Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 1: 1896-1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, pp. 308f
Web links
- SportsReference high jump , accessed September 22, 2017
- Official report pp. 696-697, engl. (PDF), accessed on September 22, 2017
- High Jump, Women, Olympic Games, Berlin , published on July 27, 2013 on youtube.com, accessed on September 22, 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 1: 1896–1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, p. 308
- ^ Official report p. 696, engl. (PDF)
- ↑ SportsReference (Eng.)
- ↑ Jewish Olympic Hope , Deutschlandfunk April 13, 2009, accessed on August 11, 2017