Dora Gardner
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| Nationality | British (English) | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 6 May 1912 Croydon, South London, England | ||||||||||||||
| Died | June 1994 (aged 82) Bournemouth, England | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 167 cm (5 ft 6 in) | ||||||||||||||
| Weight | 60 kg (132 lb) | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
| Event | high jump | ||||||||||||||
| Club | Middlesex LAC | ||||||||||||||
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Dora Kathleen Gardner (6 May 1912 – June 1994) was an English track and field athlete who competed for Great Britain in the 1948 Olympic Games.[1][2]
Biography
[edit]She was born in Croydon, South London. Gardner finished second behind Dorothy Odam in the high jump event at the 1937 WAAA Championships[3][4] and the 1938 WAAA Championships.[5] At the 1938 British Empire Games, she won the silver medal for England in the high jump event. In the long jump competition she finished seventh.[6] Also in the 1938 European Athletics Championships she finished fifth in the high jump contest and in the 1946 European Championships in Athletics she finished seventh in the high jump event.[1]
Gardner became the national high jump champion after winning the British WAAA Championships title at the 1945 WAAA Championships[7] and 1946 WAAA Championships.[8]
In 1948 she finished eighth in the Olympic high jump contest.[1]
She died in Bournemouth.
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Biographical Information". Olympedia. Retrieved 23 January 2025.
- ^ "Profile". Sports Reference.
- ^ "Miss Gladys Lunn's Triple Success". Birmingham Weekly Mercury. 8 August 1937. Retrieved 24 January 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "AAA, WAAA and National Championships Medallists". National Union of Track Statisticians. Retrieved 24 January 2025.
- ^ "Records by Women". Birmingham Daily Gazette. 4 July 1938. Retrieved 24 January 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Sydney 1938 Team". Team England. Retrieved 24 January 2025.
- ^ "Athletics". Birmingham Daily Post. 20 August 1945. Retrieved 26 January 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "AAA Championships (women)". GBR Athletics. Retrieved 24 January 2025.
External links
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- 1912 births
- 1994 deaths
- English female high jumpers
- British female high jumpers
- British female long jumpers
- Olympic athletes for Great Britain
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1948 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1938 British Empire Games
- Commonwealth Games silver medallists for England
- English female long jumpers
- Commonwealth Games medallists in athletics
- Medallists at the 1938 British Empire Games
- 20th-century English sportswomen