Dora Gardner

English athlete (1912–1994)

Dora Gardner
Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing  England
British Empire Games
Silver medal – second place 1938 Sydney High jump

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. She was born in Croydon.

In 1948 she finished eighth in the Olympic high jump contest.

At the 1938 British Empire Games she won the silver medal in the high jump event. In the long jump competition she finished seventh.

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.

She died in Bournemouth.

References

  • sports-reference.com

External links

  • Dora Gardner at OlympediaEdit on Wikidata
  • Dora Gardner at Team GBEdit on Wikidata
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AAA Championships British national champions in women's high jump
1922–1939
  • 1922: Sylvia Stone
  • 1923: Hilda Hatt
  • 1924: Sophie Elliott-Lynn
  • 1925: Phyllis Green
  • 1926: Phyllis Green
  • 1927: Phyllis Green
  • 1928: Marjorie O'Kell
  • 1929: Marjorie O'Kell
  • 1930: Mary Milne
  • 1931: Marjorie O'Kell
  • 1932: Mary Milne
  • 1933: Mary Milne
  • 1934: Mary Milne
  • 1935: Mary Milne
  • 1936: Dorothy Odam
  • 1937: Dorothy Odam
  • 1938: Dorothy Odam
  • 1939: Dorothy Odam
1946–59
1960–2006


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