Tags: Olympic Event, Olympics.
The women’s 100 metres sprint event at the 1932 Olympic Games took place between August 1 and August 2 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. The final was won by Pole Stanisława Walasiewicz.In 1980 after her shooting death as a bystander at an armed robbery 1932 race winner Stanisława Walasiewicz was revealed to be intersex and possibly ineligible to compete under modern gender determination tests. No change has been made to the records for the 1932 women’s 100 metres race.