SPORTS NEWS
German athletics association restores 1936 high jump record to Jewish winner
BERLIN - Germany's track and field association has restored a 1936 high jump record to Gretel Bergmann who was stripped of the recognition and banned from that year's Berlin Olympic Games by the Nazis because she was Jewish.
The association said in a statement that the gesture to restore Bergmann's 1.60-metre jump to the record books "can in no way make up" for the past but was "an act of justice and a symbolic gesture."
It also requested the 95-year-old Bergmann be included in Germany's sports hall of fame.
Bergmann was born in Laupheim but emigrated in 1937 to the United States, where she still lives.
