Ibolya Csák

Ibolya Csák was a Hungarian athlete, born on 6 January 1915 and died on 9 February 2006. She is best known as the winner of the women's high jump at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, one of the tightest contests in the history of the event: three athletes cleared 160 centimetres and none cleared 162, and when the three were offered a fourth attempt she was the only one to clear the height. She also won gold at the 1938 European Championships in unusual circumstances, after the original winner, Germany's Dora Ratjen, was displaced from the result, and her height there stood as the Hungarian high jump record for the next 24 years. She was the first Hungarian woman to win gold in both events and won nine Hungarian titles in all, two of them in the long jump. A Hungarian Jew, she was one of several Jewish athletes to win medals at the 1936 Games, and she received the International Fair Play Life Achievement Award in 2005.