Germany restores 1936 high-jump record to Jewish athlete, and more

last updated 8 January 2015

Germany restores 1936 high-jump record to Jewish athlete

Germany has restored a national high-jump record from 1936 to 95-year-old Margaret Bergmann Lambert of Jamaica Estates, N.Y., whom the Nazis had disqualified because she was Jewish. Lambert had been a member of Germany’s Olympic team for two years when she set the women’s national record of 5 feet, 3 inches; days later she was kicked off the team. She fled the next year for the U.S., where she has lived ever since. German officials said it was an “act of justice” to restore Lambert’s seven-decade-old record. “I’m very happy they finally did what they did,” she said.

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