Jadwiga Wajs

Jadwiga Wajs

Medal record
Women's athletics
Competitor for  Poland
Women's World Games
	1934 London	Discus throw
Olympic Games
	1936 Berlin	Discus throw
	1932 Los Angeles	Discus throw

Jadwiga Wajs-Marcinkiewicz (January 30, 1912 in Pabianice, Łódzkie – February 1, 1990) was a Polish athlete who mainly competed in the discus throw.

Career

Jadwiga Wajs in 1937

She competed for Poland at the 1932 Summer Olympics held in Los Angeles, USA, in the women's discus throw event, winning the bronze medal.

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. She was mentioned on the list of a number of Jewish athletes who won medals at the Nazi Olympics in Berlin in 1936.^[1] But it seems that she had far German roots (her father's ancestors came to Livonia and Poland from Westfalen in the 13th century and had a chevalry coat of arms - a white swan. ^[2]

See also

• List of select Jewish track and field athletes

References

External links

• sports-reference

Records
Preceded by Halina Konopacka	Women's Discus World Record Holder May 15, 1932 – June 19, 1932	Succeeded by Grete Heublein
Preceded by Grete Heublein	Women's Discus World Record Holder June 19, 1932 – June 2, 1935	Succeeded by Gisela Mauermayer