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

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
80 m hurdles				women
110 m hurdles		men
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

The women's high jump event at the 1932 Olympic Games took place August 7.

Results

Final standings

Rank	Name	Nationality	Height	Notes
	Jean Shiley	United States	1.65	WR
	Babe Didrikson	United States	1.65	WR
	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	Yaeko Sagara	Japan	1.50
10	Ellen Braumüller	Germany	1.41

Key: WR = World record

References

• 1932 Summer Olympics results: Women's high jump, from http://www.sports-reference.com/; retrieved 2010-04-05.