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Gretel Lambert (born Margarethe Bergmann; April 12, 1914 – July 25, 2017) was a German Jewish track and field athlete who competed as a high jumper during the 1930s. Due to her Jewish origins, the Nazis prevented her from taking part in the 1936 Summer Olympics, after which she left Germany and vowed never to return.
Feb 7, 2010 · Gretel Bergmann was a highly successful German track and field athlete. While studying at London Polytechnic, she became the British high jump champion in 1934. Returning to Germany to train for the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, she was denied entry to the German team even though she tied the German high jump record of 1.60 meters.
Gretel Bergmann, also known as Margaret Bergmann-Lambert is a German born Jewish Olympic athelete who prepared to compete in the 1936 Olympic games for Germany. She was born in Laupheim Germany on April 12, 1914 and was very active in sports from a young age due to her father's interest.
Two weeks before the Olympics began, German officials informed Jewish athlete Gretel Bergmann that she was denied a place on the team, although she had equaled the German women's record in the high jump. The Germans sacrificed a chance for a gold medal with this action.
German Jewish athlete Gretel Bergmann was poised to win a gold medal at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. At the qualifying trials held two months earlier, she equalled the German women’s high jump record of 1 meter 60 centimeters. But the Nazis’ control of all aspects of German life also extended to sports.
Inducted: 1980. Country: Germany. Born: April 12, 1914, in Laupheim, Germany. Died: July 25, 2017 in Queens, New York. Teenager Gretel Bergmann was Germany’s national female High Jump Champion during the 1930s. She was one of three Jews named to the German team for the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
Apr 11, 2015 · Gretel Bergmann was a world-class athlete. She excelled at swimming, running, skiing and tennis as a youth and won the German, British and American high jump titles as an adult.
