The 2nd European Athletics Championships was a continental athletics competition for European athletes which was held in two places in 1938. The men's event took place in Paris, France between 3–5 Sep
The host stadium in Paris
Great Britain's Donald Finlay set a European record to win the 110 m hurdles.
Dora Ratjen's medal in the women's high jump was removed after he revealed himself to be male.
Heinrich Ratjen
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Heinrich Ratjen, was a German athlete who competed for Germany in the women's high jump at the 1936 Summer Olympics at Berlin, finishing fourth, but was later determined to be male and/or intersex. In
1938 European Athletics Championships
…gold in the javelin throw. Among the minor medallists was Fanny Blankers-Koen, who won the first international medals of her highly successful career. Dora Ratjen was the initial winner of the women's high jump, but this was rescinded after it was discovered that he was in fact a man. A contemporaneous report on…
Ratjen's winning 1.63 m (5 ft 4.2 in) jump at the 1937 German Athletics Championships