“I’ve all the time felt Polish, I fervently wished that for me and my compatriots who emigrated to America, the Dąbrowski Mazurka can be performed in Los Angeles and the Polish flag can be raised. For us, for the American Polish neighborhood, it was a matter of honor and compensation for the various tough moments we regularly skilled overseas,” Stanisława Walasiewicz, Polish, European and world document holder in brief runs, in addition to gold (1932) and silver (1936) Olympic medalist within the 100 m race, confessed to the media.
Within the States alone she was often known as Stella Walsh. She died tragically from a gunshot wound on the age of 69, and the outcomes of her post-mortem induced a scandal and nice dialogue on the planet of sports activities. She nearly had the greater than 100 information she had achieved in her lifetime taken away from her.
Who was Stanisława Walasiewicz actually? What was her path to fame as essentially the most adorned Polish sportswoman of the twentieth century?
“It is an amazing injustice. I used to be not current on the post-mortem, so I do not need to touch upon the validity of its outcomes, however I noticed Walasiewiczówna’s beginning certificates, which states: “A feminine little one was discovered”. Stasia felt like a lady all her life,” assured Dr. Maria Rotkiewicz, a sports activities historian and co-founder of the Polish Ladies’s Sports activities Affiliation. She met Stasia within the Nineteen Seventies.
