Lillian Copeland
Lillian Copeland · Sports
Athletics; discus Olympic champion at Los Angeles 1932; boycotted the Berlin 1936 Games
1904, New York City, United States — 1964, Los Angeles, California, United States
United States
Lillian Copeland is recognized among Jewish contributors to Sports — Athletics; discus Olympic champion at Los Angeles 1932; boycotted the Berlin 1936 Games
Lillian Copeland was an American track-and-field athlete who won Olympic gold in the discus at the 1932 Los Angeles Games, having taken silver in 1928, and set multiple world records in the discus, shot put and javelin. She boycotted the 1936 Berlin Olympics in protest against Nazi Germany. She was Jewish.
Verify and go deeper with these external references.
Source: Wikipedia; International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame
This page is published in seven languages from an English source. The translations are reviewed, but a mistake can still slip through. If you spot one on this profile — a wrong word, a lost date, a sentence that says something the English does not — please tell us.
Athletics; discus Olympic champion at Los Angeles 1932; boycotted the Berlin 1936 Games
Source: Wikipedia; International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame
