NEW YORK/FRANKFURT -- Former German high jumper Gretel Bergmann, who as a Jew was denied by the Nazi regime to compete at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, has died at age 103, her son confirmed to dpa on Wednesday. Margarte 'Gretel' Bergmann Lambert was one of the world's leading high jumpers ahead of the 1936 Games but removed from the team and her place taken by a man disguised as a woman. She left Germany in 1937 and married another German refugee, Bruno Lambert, a year later. Dora Ratjen took fourth place in place of Bergmann. Bergmann left her German birth- and home town of Laupheim for good in 1937, fearing for her life and with bitter feelings.

Source: The China Post July 26, 2017 23:26 UTC