Dora Gardner
{{Short description|English athlete (1912–1994)}}
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{{Use British English|date=January 2025}}
{{Infobox sportsperson
| name = Dora Gardner
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| nationality = British (English)
| sport = Athletics
| event = high jump
| club = Middlesex LAC
| birth_date = 6 May 1912
| birth_place = Croydon, South London, England
| death_date = June 1994 (aged 82)
| death_place = Bournemouth, England
| height =167 cm
| weight =60 kg
| pb =
| medaltemplates=
{{Medal|Sport | Women's athletics}}
{{Medal|Country|{{ENG}}}}
{{Medal|Competition|British Empire Games}}
{{Medal|Silver | 1938 Sydney | High jump }}
}}
Dora Kathleen Gardner (6 May 1912 – June 1994) was an English track and field athlete who competed for Great Britain in the 1948 Olympic Games.{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/72039 |title=Biographical Information |website=Olympedia |access-date=23 January 2025}}{{cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120131032955/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ga/dora-gardner-1.html|title=Profile |website=Sports Reference}}
Biography
She was born in Croydon, South London. Gardner finished second behind Dorothy Odam in the high jump event at the 1937 WAAA Championships{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001816/19370808/017/0017 |title=Miss Gladys Lunn's Triple Success |work=Birmingham Weekly Mercury |date=8 August 1937 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription |access-date=24 January 2025 }}{{cite web|url=https://www.nuts.org.uk/Champs/AAA/index.htm |title=AAA, WAAA and National Championships Medallists |website=National Union of Track Statisticians |access-date=24 January 2025 }} and the 1938 WAAA Championships.{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000669/19380704/465/0012 |title=Records by Women |work=Birmingham Daily Gazette |date=4 July 1938 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription |access-date=24 January 2025 }}
At the 1938 British Empire Games, she won the silver medal for England in the high jump event. In the long jump competition she finished seventh.{{cite web|url=https://teamengland.org/commonwealth-games-history/sydney-1938/athletes |title=Sydney 1938 Team |website=Team England |access-date=24 January 2025 }} Also in the 1938 European Athletics Championships she finished fifth in the high jump contest and in the 1946 European Championships in Athletics she finished seventh in the high jump event.
Gardner became the national high jump champion after winning the British WAAA Championships title at the 1945 WAAA Championships{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000619/19450820/095/0004 |title=Athletics |work=Birmingham Daily Post |date=20 August 1945 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription |access-date=26 January 2025 }} and 1946 WAAA Championships.{{cite web|url=http://www.gbrathletics.com/bc/waaa.htm |title=AAA Championships (women) |website=GBR Athletics |access-date=24 January 2025 }}
In 1948 she finished eighth in the Olympic high jump contest.
She died in Bournemouth.
References
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Category:English female high jumpers
Category:British female high jumpers
Category:British female long jumpers
Category:Olympic athletes for Great Britain
Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1948 Summer Olympics
Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1938 British Empire Games
Category:Commonwealth Games silver medallists for England
Category:English female long jumpers
Category:Medallists at the 1938 British Empire Games