1928 Summer Olympics - Women's 800m Final

The competitors at the start of the final of the women’s 800-metres event of the 1928 Summer Olympics, held at the Olympisch Stadion in Amsterdam, Netherlands, 3rd August 1928. The competitors are German athlete Lina Radke (1903-1983), Japanese athlete Kinue Hitomi (1907-1931), Swedish athlete Inga Gentzel (1908-1991), Canadian athlete Jean Thompson (1910-1976), Canadian athlete Bobbie Rosenfeld (1904-1969), American athlete Florence MacDonald (1909-2008), German athlete Marie Dollinger (1910-1994), Polish athlete Gertruda Kilosowna (1913-1938), and German athlete Elfriede Wever (1900-1941). (Photo by Central Press/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)