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American athlete (1904–1964)

Lillian CopelandLillian Copeland in 1938Personal informationBirth nameLillian

DrossinBornNovember 24, 1904New York City, U.S.DiedJuly 7, 1964 (aged 59)Los
Angeles, California, U.S.Alma mater
University of Southern California (1930)
University of Southern California Law School
EmployerLos Angeles Sheriff's DepartmentHeight1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)Weight59 kg
(130 lb)SportSportAthleticsEvent(s)Discus throw, shot put, javelin throwClubLos
Angeles Athletic Club, Los AngelesAchievements and titlesNational finals
AAU shot put champion (1924–28, 1931)
AAU discus throw champion (1926 and 1927)
AAU javelin throw champion (1926 and 1931)
Highest world rankingworld champion; multiple timesPersonal best(s)DT – 40.58 m
(1932)SP – 9.38 m (1925)JT – 38.21 m (1927)[1][2]
Medal record

Representing the United States

Olympic Games

1932 Los Angeles

Discus throw

1928 Amsterdam
Discus throw

Maccabiah Games

1935 Mandatory Palestine

Discus throw

1935 Mandatory Palestine

Javelin throw
 1935 Mandatory Palestine
Shot put

Lillian Copeland (née Drossin; November 24, 1904 – July 7, 1964) was an American
track and field Olympic champion athlete, who excelled in discus, javelin throwing,
and shot put, setting multiple world records. She has been called "the most
successful female discus thrower in U.S. history".[3] She also held multiple titles
in shot put and javelin throwing. She won a silver medal in discus at the 1928
Summer Olympics, a gold medal in discus at the 1932 Summer Olympics, and gold
medals in discus, javelin, and shot put at the 1935 Maccabiah Games in Mandatory
Palestine.
In 1928, The New York Times reported that Copeland was "considered by many the all
around best woman athlete in the country."[4] Until the 2008 Beijing Games 74 years
after she became an Olympic champion, she was the only American woman to win the
discus throw at a modern Olympics.[5][6] She has been inducted into the USATF Hall
of Fame, the Helms Athletic Hall of Fame, the International Jewish Sports Hall of
Fame, and the Southern California Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.

Early and personal life[edit]

Copeland was born Lillian Drossin to Polish-Jewish immigrants in New York City.[7]
[8] Her mother was from Grodno (now in Belarus).[9][10] Her father died when she
was young, and after her mother remarried they moved to Los Angeles, California,
and changed their surnames to Drossin.[1] Her stepfather was Abraham Copeland, the
manager of a fruit and produce company.[10][11] She lived in Boyle Heights, Los
Angeles, and later in Pasadena, California, and attended Los Angeles High School,
graduating in 1923.[10][5][11][12]
She attended the University of Southern California, where she was a member of the
Xi Chapter of Alpha Epsilon Phi sorority and joined the track & field team in 1924.
[13][11] While at USC, she won every track event she entered.[10][14] She had a
role as a basketball player in the silent 1927 comedy film The Fair Co-Ed.[13] She
received a BA degree in political science in 1928.[5][10] She was the first
Olympian who was an alumna of Los Angeles High School and the University of
Southern California.[15]

Athletic career[edit]
Copeland competed during the formative decades of women's competition in track and
field. Consequently, her accomplishments are not fully reflected by the two
Olympic medals she won in the discus throw. She competed first for the Pasadena
Athletic and Country Club beginning in 1925, and from 1931 on for the Los Angeles
Athletic Club.[11][13][14] She also competed in running; in 1928 she was part of a
women's relay team that set the US record in the quarter-mile.[16] One of the track
& field events in which she competed, which is no longer contested, was the
baseball throw, in which she was second in the nation in 1926.[11] She won nine
Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) championships between 1925 and 1932.[17][5] A feature
article in the May 18, 1926, Pasadena Post noted that she "with all of her athletic
prowess ... is very ... feminine in her conduct."[11]
She excelled in all throwing events. She won the AAU shot put championships 5 times
(1924–28, 1931). She also won the AAU discus throw title in 1926 (a year in which
she set the world record; she began competing in discus because the shot put was
not yet an Olympic event)[10] and 1927, and set a new world record in the discus
throw at the 1938 Olympic trials.[10] In addition, she won the AAU javelin throw
title in 1926 (setting a world record)[13] and 1931. In the javelin, she broke the
world record three times in 1926 and 1927. Between 1928 and 1931, she took a hiatus
from competing, to focus on her law school studies.[13][5]
In 1928, The New York Times reported that Copeland was "considered by many the all
around best woman athlete in the country."[4] Both Great Athletes in Olympic
Sports (Salem Press; 2010), by Kjetil André Aamodt and Laura Flessel-Colovic, and
the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame report that she set the world record
six times each in shot put, javelin, and discus from 1925–32.[5][15][18]

Olympics[edit]
1928 Olympics[edit]
Copeland throwing the discus at the 1928 Summer Olympics
The 1928 Summer Olympics were the first Olympics to include women's track and field
events.[14] In weight throwing Copeland could only compete in the discus throw,
because the javelin throw and shot put were not yet on the program (they would
follow in 1932 and 1948, respectively).[14]
She set a new world record in the discus throw at the Olympic trials, at 115 feet,
8.5 inches.[5]
Prior to the Olympiad, in February 1928 she ran the lead leg in the 440-yard
(400 m) relay in the 1928 Olympic trials.[17][10] In so doing, she helped the US
Women's team set a new record in the event of 50.0 seconds, and actually qualified
for the Olympics in that event. Sources disagree, however, whether it was a
world[15] or US national record.
Once she arrived in Amsterdam, however, she only competed in the discus throw at
the 1928 Olympics, where she finished second to Poland's Halina Konopacka, winning
a silver medal. Inasmuch as it was the first time the event had been held, she was
the sport's first Olympic silver medalist.[19] Two weeks later, at a competition in
Brussels, Belgium, she set a new world record in the shot put.[12]
Returning to America, she attended and ultimately graduated from the University of
Southern California Law School, and became less focused on sports for a number of
years.[15][20] Nevertheless, Copeland qualified for the US 1932 Olympic team for
the discus throw.[17][10]

1932 Olympics[edit]
Training for the 1932 Summer Olympics
She competed in her home town in the 1932 Summer Olympics after beating out Babe
Didrikson to qualify, and won the gold medal in the discus with her last throw.[17]
A Los Angeles Record reporter wrote: "Confident, calm and perfectly poised, [she]
made a perfect throw."[10] In doing so she also set a new Olympic record.[10] That
throw of 133.16 feet (40.59 m) was also a new world record.[15] The 27-year-old
Copeland was at the time the oldest American woman to have won an Olympic gold
medal in a track & field event.[17]
The shot put, which she excelled in, was not included in the women's events at the
Olympic Games until 1948, depriving her of a chance to compete in it for additional
Olympic medals.[17]

1936 Olympics[edit]
Although she had begun preparations to defend her Los Angeles gold medal at the
1936 Berlin Games in Nazi Germany, and was invited to compete for the United States
at the Games, she ultimately chose to boycott them.[5][18] Her plans to boycott the
1936 Olympic Games arose in 1933, just as the Nazi Party was obtaining more power.
[21] She was one of 24 former U.S. Olympic champions who petitioned the
International Olympic Committee (IOC) in 1933 to move the Games from Germany.[14]
Copeland suggested that the situation of Nazi Germany was serious enough to warrant
a change in location for the 1936 Olympics. She supported a reputed idea to
substitute the location of the 1936 Games to Tokyo instead of Germany. [21]As a
Jew, she was strongly opposed to Adolf Hitler's edict barring Jews from the German
Olympic team.[3] She accused International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Avery
Brundage of "deliberately concealing the truth" about Hitler and Nazi Germany.[9]
She also argued that Brundage had little respect for the harmful effects of Nazi
Germany's intense regime on members of the Jewish community. Copeland raised
awareness on the danger of ignoring religious and racial hatred perpetrated by Nazi
Germany. She wanted people to know that the racial discrimination encouraged by
members of Nazi Germany should not be overlooked, even in sports. The boycott
movement fell through, however, and the 1936 Games proceeded in Germany.[21]

Maccabiah Games[edit]
Copeland competed at the 1935 Maccabiah Games in Tel Aviv in Mandatory Palestine.
[10] There, she won the gold medals in her three events, the shot put, the javelin,
and the discus throw.[22][10]

Halls of fame[edit]
In view of her contributions to women's track and field, she was made a member of
the USA Track & Field Hall of Fame, the Helms Athletic Hall of Fame, the
International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame (1980), the Woman’s Track and Field Hall
of Fame, and the Los Angeles High School Sports Hall of Fame (2010).[15][10][11]
[23] In 1990 she was inducted into the Southern California Jewish Sports Hall of
Fame.[24]

Later career[edit]
Copeland joined the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department in 1936, and worked there
until she retired in 1960. At the Sheriff's Department, she worked in the Lennox
and Firestone Juvenile divisions.[10][1][15][25]
She died on July 7, 1964, in Los Angeles, at 59 years of age at Sunset Hospital
after a lengthy illness.[25][10][26] At the time of her death, she was one of only
eight American women to have won an Olympic gold medal.[11]

See also[edit]
List of Jews in track and field
List of Olympic medalists in athletics (women)
List of USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships winners
References[edit]

^ a b c Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al.

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^ "Track and Field Statistics; Lillian Copeland". trackfield.brinkster.net.

^ a b Crumpacker, John (August 19, 2008). "US women's 1st discus gold since '32".
San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved August 19, 2008.

^ a b Bryan Field (April 1, 1928). "Olympic Tryouts for Women July 4 – City Stadium
in Newark Is Picked for Finals in the National Trials – Other Meet Dates Set –
Junior and Senior Metropolitan Championships June 3 and 9 –- Test at Yankee Stadium
June 16". The New York Times.

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Retrieved February 3, 2024.

^ "U.S. hopes hatch from 'golden egg'". Yahoo! Sports. August 18, 2008. Retrieved
August 18, 2008.

^ "210 Cited for Work in Jewish Who's Who – Publication Lists Those Who Made Noted
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^ Rafer Johnson (2010). Great Athletes. Vol. 5. Salem Press. ISBN 978-1587654879.

^ a b Sheldon Anderson (2017). The Forgotten Legacy of Stella Walsh; The Greatest
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^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p "Lillian Copeland". Jewish Women's Archive.

^ a b c d e f g h Paul R. Spitzzeri (May 22, 2020). "Games People Play: A Press
Photo of Track and Field Star Lillian Copeland, Los Angeles, 21 May 1926". The
Homestead.

^ a b "Miss Copeland Sets Mark inShot-Put – Breaks World's Record and Also Wins Two
Other Events in International Meet – American Girls Triumph – Take Four First
Places Out of Nine at Brussels – Miss Washburn Is Victor". The New York Times.
August 13, 1928.

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^ "World Relay Mark Is Set on Coast – Quarter-Mile Mark of 0:42 Lowered to 0:42 3-5
by Southern California Quartet – Charlie Borah Is Beaten – Loses to Draper in Close
Finish is100-Yard Dash and A.A.U. Meet in Los Angeles". The New York Times.

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^ Lillian Copeland. Jewish Women's Archive

^ Gwynedd Stuart (August 12, 2016). "A Brief History of L.A. Women Kicking Ass at
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^ a b c Soifer, Paul (2005). "Lillian Copeland Speaks Out On The Olympics: Los
Angeles 1932, Berlin 1936". Western States Jewish History. 30 (8): 3–16.

^ "HOFFMAN IS SECOND IN MACCABIAH SPRINT; Coates, New York Team-Mate Sixth in 200
at Tel-Aviv -- Miss Koff Triumphs". The New York Times. April 5, 1935.

^ "Los Angeles High School Sports Hall of Fame: Inaugural class," The Los Angeles
Times, February 3, 2010.

^ "Lillian Copeland; Track & Field -- 1990". Southern California Jewish Sports Hall
of Fame.

^ a b "US Olympic Star Copeland Dies at 60", Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles,
California, pg. 38, 8 July 1964

^ "Lillian Copeland, 59, Dies". The New York Times. July 8, 1964.

External links[edit]

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Links to related articles
vteOlympic champions in women's discus throw
1928: Halina Konopacka (POL)
1932: Lillian Copeland (USA)
1936: Gisela Mauermayer (GER)
1948: Micheline Ostermeyer (FRA)
1952: Nina Romashkova (URS)
1956: Olga Fikotová (TCH)
1960: Nina Ponomaryova (URS)
1964: Tamara Press (URS)
1968: Lia Manoliu (ROU)
1972: Faina Melnik (URS)
1976: Evelin Schlaak (GDR)
1980: Evelin Jahl (GDR)
1984: Ria Stalman (NED)
1988: Martina Hellmann (GDR)
1992: Maritza Martén (CUB)
1996: Ilke Wyludda (GER)
2000: Ellina Zvereva (BLR)
2004: Natalya Sadova (RUS)
2008: Stephanie Brown Trafton (USA)
2012: Sandra Perković (CRO)
2016: Sandra Perković (CRO)
2020: Valarie Allman (USA)

vteUS National Championship winners in women's shot put1923–1979Amateur Athletic

Union
1923: Bertha Christophel
1924: Ester Behring
1925–28: Lillian Copeland
1929–30: Rena MacDonald
1931: Lillian Copeland
1932: Babe Didrikson Zaharias
1933: Catherine Rutherford
1934: Not held
1935: Rena MacDonald
1936: Helen Stephens
1937: Gretel Bergmann
1938–41: Catherine Fellmeth
1942: Ramona Harris
1943: Frances Gorn-Sobczak (POL) * Dorothy Dodson
1944: Dorothy Dodson
1945: Frances Kaszubski (POL) * Helen Steward
1946–47: Dorothy Dodson
1948: Frances Kaszubski (POL) * Dorothy Dodson
1949: Amelia Wood
1950: Frances Kaszubski (POL) * Amelia Wood
1951: Amelia Wood
1952: Amelia Wood & Janet Dicks
1953: Amelia Wood
1954: Lois Testa
1955: Wanda Wejzgrowicz
1956–62: Earlene Brown
1963: Sharon Shepherd
1964: Earlene Brown
1965–66: Lynn Graham
1967–68: Maren Seidler
1969–71: Lynn Graham
1972–79: Maren Seidler
1980–1992The Athletics Congress
1980: Maren Seidler
1981: Denise Wood
1982: María Elena Sarría (CUB) * Denise Wood (3)
1983: Denise Wood
1984: Ria Stalman (NED) * Lorna Griffin
1985–87: Ramona Pagel
1988: Connie Price
1989: Ramona Pagel
1990: Connie Price
1991: Ramona Pagel
1992: Connie Price-Smith
1993 onwardsUSA Track & Field
1993–2000: Connie Price-Smith
2001: Seilala Sua
2002: Teri Steer
2003: Kristin Heaston
2004: Laura Gerraughty
2005: Kristin Heaston
2006: Jillian Camarena
2007: Kristin Heaston
2008–09: Michelle Carter
2010: Jillian Camarena
2011: Michelle Carter
2012: Jillian Camarena-Williams
2013–16: Michelle Carter
2017: Raven Saunders
2018: Maggie Ewen
2019: Chase Ealey
20212020 OT: Jessica Ramsey
2022: Chase Ealey
2023: Maggie Ewen
Notes
Since 1992, the championships has incorporated the Olympic Trials in Olympic years,
otherwise held as a discrete event.
2020 OT: The 2020 Olympic Trials were delayed and held in 2021 due to the COVID-19
pandemic.

vteUS National Championship winners in women's discus throw1923–1979Amateur

Athletic Union
1923: Babe Wolbert
1924: Roberta Ranck
1925: MayBelle Reichardt
1926–7: Lillian Copeland
1928: MayBelle Reichardt
1929: Rena MacDonald
1930–1: Evelyn Ferrara
1932–3: Ruth Osburn
1934: Not held
1935: Margaret Wright
1936: Helen Stephens
1937: Elizabeth Lindsey
1938–40: Catherine Fellmeth
1941: Stanisława Walasiewicz (POL) *Evelyn Taylor
1942: Stanisława Walasiewicz (POL) *Anne Pallo (3)
1943: Frances Gorn-Sobczak (POL) * Betty Weaver
1944: Hattie Turner
1945: Frances Kaszubski (POL) * Hattie Turner
1946: Dorothy Dodson
1947–48: Frances Kaszubski (POL) * Dorothy Dodson
1949: Frances Kaszubski (POL) * Herta Rand
1950: Frances Kaszubski (POL) * Amelia Bert
1951: Frances Kaszubski (POL) * Janet Dicks
1952–3: Janet Dicks
1954: Marjorie Larney
1955: Alejandrina Ibarra (CUB) * Marjorie Larney
1956: Pamela Kurrell
1957: Olga Connolly
1958–9: Earlene Brown
1960: Olga Connolly
1961: Earlene Brown
1962: Olga Connolly
1963: Sharon Shepherd
1964: Olga Connolly
1965: Lynn Graham
1966–7: Carol Moseke
1968: Olga Connolly
1969–70: Carol Frost
1971: Josephine de la Viña (PHI) * Carol Frost
1972: Josephine de la Viña (PHI) * Olga Connolly
1973: Jean Roberts (AUS) *Monette Driscoll (3)
1974: Joan Pavelich (CAN) * Linda Langford
1975: Jean Roberts (AUS) *Jan Svendsen
1976: Lynne Winbigler
1977: Jane Haist (CAN) * Lynne Winbigler
1978–9: Lynne Winbigler
1980–1992The Athletics Congress
1980: Lorna Griffin
1981: Leslie Deniz
1982: Ria Stalman (NED) * Leslie Deniz
1983: Leslie Deniz
1984: Ria Stalman (NED) * Carol Cady
1985–6: Carol Cady
1987: Connie Price
1988: Lacy Barnes
1989–90: Connie Price
1991: Lacy Barnes
1992: Connie Price-Smith
1993–presentUSA Track & Field
1993–4: Connie Price-Smith
1995: Edie Boyer
1996: Suzy Powell
1997: Lacy Barnes-Mileham
1998–2001: Seilala Sua
2002: Kris Kuehl
2003–4: Aretha Hill
2005: Becky Breisch
2006: Aretha Thurmond
2007: Suzy Powell
2008: Aretha Thurmond
2009: Stephanie Brown Trafton
2010: Becky Breisch
2011–2: Stephanie Brown Trafton
2013–5: Gia Lewis-Smallwood
2016OT: Whitney Ashley
2017: Gia Lewis-Smallwood
2018-9: Valarie Allman
20212020 OT-22: Valarie Allman
Notes
OT: Since 1992, championships incorporated the Olympic Trials in Olympic years,
otherwise held as a discrete event.
2020 OT: The 2020 Olympic Trials were delayed and held in 2021 due to the COVID-19
pandemic.

vteUS National Championship winners in women's javelin throw1923–1979Amateur

Athletic Union
1923: Roberta Ranck
1924: Esther Spargo
1925: Aloa Silva
1926: Lillian Copeland
1927–8: Margaret Jenkins
1929: Estelle Hill
1930: Babe Didrikson Zaharias
1931: Lillian Copeland
1932: Babe Didrikson Zaharias
1933: Nan Gindele
1934: Not held
1935: Sylvia Broman
1936: Martha Worst
1937–8: Rose Auerbach
1939–49: Dorothy Dodson
1950: Amelia Wood
1951: Frances Licata
1952: Marjorie Larney
1953: Amelia Wood
1954–6: Karen Anderson
1957–60: Marjorie Larney
1961: Frances Davenport
1962: Karen Mendyka
1963: Frances Davenport
1964–7: RaNae Bair
1968: Barbara Friedrich
1969: Kate Schmidt
1970–2: Sherry Calvert
1973–7: Kate Schmidt
1978: Sherry Calvert
1979: Kate Schmidt
1980–1992The Athletics Congress
1980–1: Karin Smith
1982: Lynda Hughes
1983–4: Karin Smith
1985: Cathy Sulinski
1986: Helena Uusitalo (FIN) * Donna Mayhew
1987: Karin Smith
1988: Donna Mayhew
1989: Laverne Eve (BAH) * Donna Mayhew
1990–1: Karin Smith
1992: Donna Mayhew
1993–onwardsUSA Track & Field
1993–5: Donna Mayhew
1996: Nicole Carroll
1997: Lynda Lipson
1998: Nicole Carroll
1999–2000: Lynda Blutreich
2001: Kim Kreiner
2002: Serene Ross
2003: Erica Wheeler
2004–6: Kim Kreiner
2007: Dana Pounds
2008–11: Kara Patterson
2012–3: Brittany Borman
2014–5: Kara Winger
2016: Maggie Malone
2017–18: Kara Winger
2019: Ariana Ince
20212020 OT: Maggie Malone
2022: Kara Winger
Olympic Trials
The 1920, 1928 and 1932 championships, and championships in Olympic years since
1992 have incorporated the Olympic Trials, otherwise held separately.
2020 OT: The 2020 Olympic Trials were delayed and held in 2021 due to the COVID-19
pandemic.

vte1928 USA Olympic track and field teamQualification

1928 United States Olympic trials (track and field)
Men's trackand road athletes
David Abbott
Bill Agee
Fred Alderman (r)
Steve Anderson
George Baird (r)
Ray Barbuti
Charley Borah
Claude Bracey
Nick Carter
John Collier
Ray Conger
Frank Cuhel
Henry Cumming
Melvin Dalton
Clarence DeMar
Leighton Dye
Harvey Frick
Earl Fuller
Walter Gegan
Johnny Gibson
Lloyd Hahn
Charles Haworth
James Henigan
Leo Lermond
Robert Maxwell
Bob McAllister
Albert Michelsen
Jesse Montgomery
Charley Paddock
Hermon Phillips
Jimmy Quinn (r)
Joie Ray
Carl Ring
Sid Robinson
John Romig
Henry Russell
Jackson Scholz
John Sittig
Macauley Smith
Euil Snider
Emerson Spencer (r)
William Spencer
Morgan Taylor
Joe Tierney
Ray Watson
Frank Wykoff
Men's field athletes
John Anderson
Lee Barnes
Lee Bartlett
Al Bates
Barney Berlinger
Edmund Black
Lloyd Bourgeois
Sidney Bowman
Herman Brix
Sabin Carr
Levi Casey
Kenneth Caskey
Tom Churchill
Frank Conner
James Corson
Ken Doherty
William Droegemueller
Ed Gordon
Donald Gwinn
Ed Hamm
Charles Harlow
Ben Hedges
Creth Hines
Bud Houser
DeHart Hubbard
Bob Kelley
Bob King
Eric Krenz
John Kuck
Charles McGinnis
Harold Osborn
Harlow Rothert
Arthur Sager
James Stewart
Fred Weicker
Women's track athletes
Dee Boeckmann
Elta Cartwright
Jessie Cross (r)
Florence MacDonald
Loretta McNeil (r)
Betty Robinson
Anne Vrana
Mary Washburn
Rayma Wilson
Women's field athletes
Lillian Copeland
Marion Holley
Margaret Jenkins
Rena MacDonald
Catherine Maguire
Maybelle Reichardt
Jean Shiley
Mildred Wiley
Coaches
Lawson Robertson (men's head coach)
Johnny Behr (men's assistant coach)
Dean Cromwell (men's assistant coach)
Eddie Farrell (men's assistant coach)
Harry Hillman (men's assistant coach)
Wilbur Hutsell (men's assistant coach)
Tom Keane (men's assistant coach)
Jack Magee (men's assistant coach)
Jack Ryder (men's assistant coach)
Henry Schulte (men's assistant coach)
Dink Templeton (men's assistant coach)
Mel Sheppard (women's coach)

vte1932 USA Olympic track and field teamQualification

1932 United States Olympic trials (track and field)
Men's trackand road athletes
Ed Ablowich (r)
Percy Beard
Bill Carr
Bill Chisholm
Ernest Crosbie
Frank Crowley
Glenn Cunningham
Glen Dawson
Daniel Dean
Hector Dyer (r)
Ben Eastman
Ivan Fuqua (r)
Edwin Genung
James Gordon
Lou Gregory
Norwood Hallowell
Glenn Hardin
Joe Healey
James Henigan
Ralph Hill
Harry Hinkel
Chuck Hornbostel
Jack Keller
Bob Kiesel (r)
Joe McCluskey
Ralph Metcalfe
Albert Michelsen
Hans Oldag
Tom Ottey
Eino Pentti
Walter Pritchard
Paul Rekers
George Saling
George Simpson
Morgan Taylor
Eddie Tolan
Emmett Toppino (r)
Edwin Turner
Karl Warner (r)
Frank Wykoff (r)
Men's field athletes
John Anderson
Dick Barber
Lee Bartlett
Jim Bausch
Sidney Bowman
Wilson Charles
Kenneth Churchill
Clyde Coffman
Frank Conner
Sol Furth
Ed Gordon
Bill Graber
Nelson Gray
George Jefferson
Paul Jessup
Cornelius Johnson
Henri LaBorde
Grant McDougall
Malcolm Metcalf
Bill Miller
Lambert Redd
Rolland Romero
Harlow Rothert
Leo Sexton
George Spitz
Bob Van Osdel
Pete Zaremba
Women's track athletes
Mary Carew (r)
Babe Didrikson
Evelyn Furtsch (r)
Evelyne Hall
Ethel Harrington
Annette Rogers (r)
Simone Schaller
Wilhelmina von Bremen
Elizabeth Wilde
Women's field athletes
Lillian Copeland
Babe Didrikson
Nan Gindele
Margaret Jenkins
Ruth Osburn
Annette Rogers
Gloria Russell
Jean Shiley
Non-competing relay pool members
Arnold Adams
Tidye Pickett
Louise Stokes
Coaches
Lawson Robertson (men's head coach)
Eddie Farrell (men's assistant coach)
Harry Hillman (men's assistant coach)
Jack Magee (men's assistant coach)
George Vreeland (women's coach)

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