Athletics at the 1936 Summer Olympics – Women's high jump

Women's high jump

at the Games of the XI Olympiad

Dates

August 9

Medalists

← 1932

1948 →

Athletics at the 1936 Summer Olympics

Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men
400 m	men
800 m	men
1500 m	men
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
80 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men
3000 m steeple	men
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men
Road events
Marathon	men
50 km walk	men
Field events
Long jump	men
Triple jump	men
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Shot put	men
Discus throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Combined events
Decathlon	men
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The women's high jump event was part of the track and field athletics programme at the 1936 Summer Olympics. The competition was held on August 9, 1936. The final was won by Ibolya Csák of Hungary.^[1] Gretel Bergmann, a German Jewish athlete, was prevented from competing by the Nazis.

Results

Rank	Name	Nationality	Height	Notes
	Ibolya Csák	Hungary	1.60
	Dorothy Odam	Great Britain	1.60
	Elfriede Kaun	Germany	1.60
4	Dora Ratjen	Germany	1.58	DQ
5	Marguerite Nicolas	France	1.58
6	Fanny Blankers-Koen	Netherlands	1.55
6	Annette Rogers	United States	1.55
6	Doris Carter	Australia	1.55
9	Alice Arden	United States	1.50
9	Kathlyn Kelley	United States	1.50
9	Margaret Bell	Canada	1.50
9	Wanda Nowak	Austria	1.50
9	Nellie Carrington	Great Britain	1.50
14	Catherine Stevens	Belgium	1.40
14	Tini Koopmans	Netherlands	1.40
14	Junko Nishida	Japan	1.40
17	Irja Lipasti	Finland	1.30

^ "Athletics at the 1936 Berlin Summer Games: Women's High Jump". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 26 December 2017.

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