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"Female" Shot Put Athletes????


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This is Dora Ratjen. She competed for Germany in the 1936 games in the woman’s high jump and later in the European championships in 1938 where she set a new world record.

She was arrested on the way home from the games on suspicion of being a man, something she later admitted to.

The real surprise , given when this happened is that she / he survived the war dying in 2008.

I think the feet and the five o'clock shadow are a bit of a give away.

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