In the pages of American swimming history, there are a few occasions where the participants failed to earn notable results. The 1936 Berlin Olympics is a prominent example. After the 1932 edition ...
The last survivor of the American team that competed in Hitler’s 1936 Games in Berlin, she went on to become a wartime pilot and an aeronautics instructor.
Ms Glover led a very active life, having been a prodigious young swimmer who narrowly missed out on competing at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Her swimming exploits were even recorded in the Daily Mail.
swam in the 1936 Berlin Olympics and went on to serve as a US Women’s Air Service Pilot during the Second World War. Iris Cummings was 15 when, with two national titles for the women’s 200 ...
Passages: Iris Cummings Critchell, Oldest Survivor of 1936 Olympics, Dies at 104 Iris Cummings Critchell, a swimmer who was the last surviving athlete from the 1936 Olympics, died on Jan.
Yet Jesse Owens' performances in the Berlin Olympics of 1936 were tainted and are remembered for so much more than his endeavours in athletics. Admittedly Owens was different to most of his rivals ...
In 1936, she landed a place on the U.S. Olympic swimming team and sailed to Europe ... she was the last living athlete from the Berlin Olympics, according to the International Olympic Committee.
After making the 1936 Olympic team at swimming trials, Critchell ... said in a 2015 interview for the NBC Sports film “More than Gold” on Owens at the Berlin Games. “We’d heard the same rumors (about ...