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"Babe Didrikson Zaharias's Legacy Fades", The New York Times, June 25, 2011; Babe Didrikson Zaharias – Note: Although this is the official site of the Babe Didrikson Zaharias Foundation, this site once contained a number of notable factual errors that have since been corrected. For example, it stated that she won all of the events she entered ...
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).
At the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, 29 athletics events were contested. It was the first time the 50 kilometres race walk appeared in the athletic program at the Games. This was the second time women's events in athletics were included in the Olympic Games program and the first time that women competed in the javelin throw and 80m ...
Medal Name Sport Event Date Gold: Babe Didrikson: Athletics: Women's javelin throw: July 31 Gold: Leo Sexton: Athletics: Men's shot put: July 31 Gold: Eddie Tolan: Athletics: Men's 100 m: August 1 Gold: Eddie Tolan: Athletics: Men's 200 m: August 1 Gold: Ed Gordon: Athletics: Men's long jump: August 2 Gold: Lillian Copeland: Athletics: Women's ...
Shiley tied with Babe Didrikson in the trials for the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. In the games, both cleared 5 ft 5 + 1 ⁄ 4 in (1.657 m) and failed at 5 ft 6 in (1.676 m). In the jump-off, they tied again at a world record height of 5 ft 5 + 3 ⁄ 4 in (1.670 m); however, Shiley was awarded the gold medal, as Didrikson's Western roll ...
This 400-m sprint in Tokyo would be the final individual Olympic event of her storied career: another Olympic medal would give Felix 10, the most ever for a female track-and-field athlete. Right ...
Since her debut at the 2012 Summer Olympics at the age of 15, Katie Ledecky has broken 16 world records and is the most decorated female swimmer in history, with seven Olympic gold medals and 21 ...
nb Note: Marion Jones was stripped of all her Olympic medals. In 2008 the Russian team of Evgeniya Polyakova, Aleksandra Fedoriva, Yulia Gushchina, and Yuliya Chermoshanskaya were initially awarded the gold medals. However, the medals were rescinded in 2016 following disqualification of Chermoshanskaya for use of performance-enhancing drugs. [7]