Wanda Nowak

Wanda Nowak
nation	Austria
birthday	January 16, 1913
place of birth	Austria
size	165 cm
Weight	57 kg
Career
status	not active
Medal table
Austrian championships 32 × 0 × 0 ×
Austrian Championship (selection) gold 1932-1937 Threshold relay gold 1933, 1934 4 × 100 m relay gold 1934-1940 Long jump gold 1934-1940 Pentathlon gold 1935-1937, 1939 high jump gold 1938, 1939 Javelin throw
last change: November 13, 2018

Wanda Nowak (born January 16, 1913 ) is a former Austrian athlete and Olympian (1936).

Career

The WAC athlete won the Austrian national championship title in the high jump from 1935 to 1937, in the long jump from 1934 and 1937 to 1940, in the javelin throw in 1938 and 1939 and in the pentathlon from 1934 to 1940.

In the mid-1930s she was able to set three world records with WAC squadrons on routes that were no longer run.

At the Olympic Games in Berlin in 1936 Nowak only competed in the high jump and was able to cross 1.50 m. That made her ninth in the competition. Today, however, she is usually listed as eighth, as Dora Ratjen's achievements are no longer recognized.

Ratjen also won the high jump competition at the European Championships in Vienna in 1938 , where Ratjen and Feodora zu Solms represented Germany in the high jump together with Wanda Nowak, since Austria was no longer allowed to compete with its own team after the annexation to the Third Reich. Wanda Nowak crossed 1.50 m as in 1936 and is listed as eighth after Ratjens was deleted.

Wanda Nowak had a competition weight of 57 kg with a height of 1.65 m. Her best performance in the high jump was 1.56 m, jumped in 1938 in Bad Nauheim. Ilse Steinegger exceeded this Austrian record in 1947.

literature

• Erich Kamper and Karl Graf: Austria's athletics in names and numbers . Graz 1986, ISBN 3-7011-7169-6
• Klaus Amrhein: Biographical handbook on the history of German athletics 1898–1998. [2. Edition], Leichtathletik-Fördergesellschaft, Darmstadt 1999, p. 333 ( excerpt )

Web links

• Wanda Nowak in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Austrian Athletics Association

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Volker Kluge : Olympic Summer Games. The Chronicle I. Athens 1896 - Berlin 1936. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00715-6 , p. 888, note 141.