Athletics at the 1932 Summer Olympics – Women's high jump

Women's high jump at the Games of the X Olympiad
Venue	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
Dates	August 7
Competitors	10 from 6 nations
Medalists
Jean Shiley  United States Babe Didrikson  United States Eva Dawes  Canada
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Athletics at the 1932 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
Sprint hurdles (110m/80w)	men	women
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 at the 1932 Olympic Games took place August 7.^[1] When world record holder and returning silver medalist Lien Gisolf failed at 1.60, the medalists were determined. Eva Dawes made the next height but was unable to make 1.62m leaving her with the bronze medal. The two American jumpers Jean Shiley and Babe Didrikson jumped evenly through the rest of the competition. Both cleared a new world record of 1.65 m (5 ft 4+3⁄4 in) on their first attempt and then missed at 1.67 m (5 ft 5+1⁄2 in). A jump-off was ordered at 1.67 m (5 ft 5+1⁄2 in) and both Americans had successful clearances on their first attempt. But after Didrikson’s jump, the officials convened and ruled that she had jumped head-first, which was then illegal, and was termed diving. This gave the gold medal to Jean Shiley. Didrikson later noted that she had jumped in the same style throughout the competition.^[2]

Results

Final standings

Rank	Name	Nationality	Height	Notes
	Jean Shiley	United States	1.65	WR
	Babe Didrikson	United States	1.65
	Eva Dawes	Canada	1.60
4	Lien Gisolf	Netherlands	1.58
5	Marjorie Clark	South Africa	1.58
6	Annette Rogers	United States	1.58
7	Helma Notte	Germany	1.55
8	Yuriko Hirohashi	Japan	1.50
9	Yae Sagara	Japan	1.50
10	Ellen Braumüller	Germany	1.41

Key: WR = World record

References

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