1936 Summer Olympics / Athletics - High Jump (Women)

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Olympic rings
Bundesarchiv Bild 183-G00974, Berlin, Olympics, high jump, Elfriede Kaun.jpg
sport athletics
discipline high jump
gender Women
Attendees 17 athletes from 12 countries
Competition location Olympiastadion Berlin
Competition phase August 9, 1936
Medalists
gold medal Hungary 1918Hungary Ibolya Csák ( HUN )
Silver medal United KingdomUnited Kingdom Dorothy Odam ( GBR )
Bronze medal German Reich NSGerman Reich (Nazi era) Elfriede Kaun ( GER )
1932 1948

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

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

Dora Ratjen (DEU) was initially ranked fourth. In 1939 the sex was officially changed to male and the first name to Heinrich, so that a disqualification ensued.
Elfriede Kaun (DEU) won bronze.
The three medal winners: on the left the winner Ibolya Csák (HUN), in the middle Elfriede Kaun (DEU), on the right the British Dorothy Odam

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
1 Ibolya Csák Hungary 1918Hungary 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 KingdomUnited Kingdom 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 Reich NSGerman Reich (Nazi era) 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 Third French RepublicThird French Republic France O O O O O xxx 1.58 m
5 Fanny Koen NetherlandsNetherlands Netherlands O O O O x 1.55 m
Doris Carter AustraliaAustralia Australia O O O O x
Annette Rogers United States 48United States United States O O O O x
8th Alice Arden United States 48United States United States O O O x 1.50 m
Margaret Bell Canada 1921Canada Canada O O O x
Nellie Carrington United KingdomUnited Kingdom United Kingdom O O O x
Kathlyn Kelley United States 48United States United States O O O x
Wanda Nowak AustriaAustria Austria O O O x
13 Jantina Koopmans NetherlandsNetherlands Netherlands O O x 1.40 m
Junko Nishida Japan 1870Japan Japan O O x
Catherine Stevens BelgiumBelgium Belgium O O x
16 Irja Lipasti FinlandFinland Finland O x 1.30 m
DSQ Dora Ratjen German Reich NSGerman Reich (Nazi era) 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

Individual evidence

  1. Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 1: 1896–1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, p. 308
  2. ^ Official report p. 696, engl. (PDF)
  3. SportsReference (Eng.)
  4. Jewish Olympic Hope , Deutschlandfunk April 13, 2009, accessed on August 11, 2017