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


The women's high jump event at the 1932 Olympic Games took place August 7. 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 on their first attempt. Both missed three times in a new world record of. With a tie remaining, in a jump off they were given an additional attempt and both cleared it. But the officials huddled and determined that Didrikson had gone over the bar head first, at the time a violation of the rules. While Didrikson contended she jumped the same way throughout the competition, that one jump was ruled a miss, giving the gold to Shiley.

Results

Final standings

RankNameNationalityHeightNotes
Jean Shiley1.65WR
Babe Didrikson1.65WR
Eva Dawes1.60
4Lien Gisolf1.58
5Marjorie Clark1.58
6Annette Rogers1.58
7Helma Notte1.55
8Yuriko Hirohashi1.50
9Yae Sagara1.50
10Ellen Braumüller1.41

Key: WR = World record