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Didrikson set four world records, winning two gold medals and one silver medal in track and field in the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] In the 80-meter hurdles, she equaled the world record of 11.8 seconds in her opening heat.
The women's 80 metres hurdles event at the 1932 Olympic Games took place between August 3 and August 4 at ... Babe Didrikson ... WR = World record; DNF = did not ...
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).
Babe Didrikson is one of the leaders, innovators, activists, entertainers, athletes and artists who defined the last century.
Although some of Didrikson's marks were cited as "world records" in both contemporary and later sources, she did not set any official world records at the 1932 trials; some of her marks were superior to the listed world records, but inferior to still-pending marks by other athletes that were subsequently ratified. [2]: 9, 78 [3]
Multi-sport American athlete Babe Didrikson Zaharias was breaking boundaries in sports in the early 1900s. She was voted the Greatest Female Athlete of the first half of the 20th century by the ...
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 ...
Babe Didrikson: High jump — 1.65 Annette Rogers — 1.58 6 Jean Shiley — 1.65 Lillian Copeland: Discus throw — 40.58 OR: Margaret Jenkins — 30.22 9 Ruth Osburn — 40.12 Babe Didrikson: Javelin throw — 43.69 OR: Nan Gindele — 37.95 5 Gloria Russell — 36.74 6