Jadwiga Wajs
{{Short description|Polish discus thrower (1912–1990)}}
{{Infobox sportsperson
| name = Jadwiga Wajs
| image = Wajsówna.jpg
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| caption = Jadwiga Wajs in 1937
| full_name = Jadwiga Wajs-Marcinkiewicz
| birth_date = {{birth date|1912|1|30|df=y}}
| birth_place = Pabianice, Russian Empire
| death_date = {{death date and age|1990|2|1|1912|1|30|df=y}}
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{{MedalSport | Women's athletics}}
{{MedalCountry | {{POL}} }}
{{MedalCompetition|Olympic Games}}
{{MedalSilver| 1936 Berlin | Discus throw}}
{{MedalBronze | 1932 Los Angeles | Discus throw}}
{{MedalCompetition|Women's World Games}}
{{MedalGold| 1934 London | Discus throw}}
{{MedalCompetition|European Championships}}
{{MedalBronze|1946 Oslo|Discus throw}}
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Jadwiga Wajs-Marcinkiewicz (30 January 1912 in Pabianice, Russian Empire – 1 February 1990) was a Polish athlete who mainly competed in the discus throw.
Career
She competed for Poland at the 1932 Summer Olympics held in Los Angeles, United States, in the women's discus throw event, winning the bronze medal.
File:Jadwiga Wajs i Franciszek Grętkiewicz grób.jpg]]
Four years later she threw the discus again for Poland in the 1936 Summer Olympics held in Berlin, Germany where she split the German pair Gisela Mauermayer and Paula Mollenhauer in winning the silver medal. Jadwiga Wajs was Jewish,{{Cite book|last=Anderson|first=Sheldon|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3sQpDwAAQBAJ&dq=Jadwiga+Wajs+zydowka&pg=PA95|title=The Forgotten Legacy of Stella Walsh: The Greatest Female Athlete of Her Time|date=2017-09-08|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=978-1-4422-7756-4|pages=95|language=en|quote=Poland's great discus thrower Jadwiga Wajs was of Jewish ...}} her father's ancestors came to Livonia and Poland from Westfalen in the 13th century. Their heraldic crest was the white swan.{{cite web|url=http://zjednoczeniepabianickie.pl/zd/page5/files/25ff535b79cdeccb104d81a48230d8f0-6.html|title=Jadwiga Wajs-Marcinkiewicz|date=April 19, 2008|publisher=Zjednoczenie Pabianickie|language=Polish|access-date=July 18, 2015|archive-date=March 3, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303182114/http://zjednoczeniepabianickie.pl/zd/page5/files/25ff535b79cdeccb104d81a48230d8f0-6.html|url-status=dead}}
References
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External links
- {{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/wa/jadwiga-wajs-marcinkiewicz-1.html |title=Jadwiga Wajs-Marcinkiewicz |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110519195221/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/wa/jadwiga-wajs-marcinkiewicz-1.html |archive-date=2011-05-19 |url-status=dead}}
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{{succession box|before={{flagicon|POL}} Halina Konopacka|title=Women's Discus World Record Holder|years=15 May 1932 – 19 June 1932|after={{flagicon|GER}} Grete Heublein}}
{{succession box|before={{flagicon|GER}} Grete Heublein|title=Women's Discus World Record Holder|years=19 June 1932 – 2 June 1935|after={{flagicon|GER|Nazi}} Gisela Mauermayer}}
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Category:Polish female discus throwers
Category:Polish female shot putters
Category:Polish people of Jewish descent
Category:Olympic athletes for Poland
Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1932 Summer Olympics
Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1936 Summer Olympics
Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1948 Summer Olympics
Category:Olympic silver medalists for Poland
Category:Olympic bronze medalists for Poland
Category:Sportspeople from Pabianice
Category:World record setters in athletics (track and field)
Category:European Athletics Championships medalists
Category:Athletes from Łódź Voivodeship
Category:People from Piotrków Governorate
Category:People from the Russian Empire of German descent
Category:Polish people of German descent
Category:Medalists at the 1936 Summer Olympics
Category:Medalists at the 1932 Summer Olympics
Category:Olympic silver medalists in athletics (track and field)
Category:Olympic bronze medalists in athletics (track and field)
Category:Women's World Games medalists
Category:Recipients of the Silver Cross of Merit (Poland)
Category:Members of the Polish Gymnastic Society "Sokół"
Category:20th-century Polish sportswomen
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