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Rosenfeld had never trained for the Olympic 800
meter event. She was entered into the race only to
encourage teammate Jean Thompson. The youngest
member of the "matchless six," seventeen-year-old
Thompson had spent the week before the Games
resting an injured leg, and team officials worried
that this had lowered her morale.
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Thompson started the race strong, but after being
passed and jostled by a few of the runners she
dropped from second to fourth place and was
starting to falter. Rosenfeld, running in ninth,
sprinted to draw even with her, and then coaxed
Thompson the rest of the way to the finish
line.
Many watching this performance realized that
Rosenfeld could have continued her push forward and
won another medal. Instead she, "stayed at Jean's
shoulder to the finish and then let Jean finish
fourth, taking fifth for herself." As the team
manager Alexandrine Gibb remembered it, "Bobbie
Rosenfeld's sportsmanship in this event was one of
the high spots of the games....In the annals of
women's athletics, there is no finer deed than
this."
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How to Cite This Page
For a bibliography:
Jewish Women's Archive. "JWA - Bobbie Rosenfeld - No Finer Deed." <http://jwa.org/exhibits/wov/rosenfeld/deed.html>.
For a footnote:
Jewish Women's Archive, "JWA - Bobbie Rosenfeld - No Finer Deed," <http://jwa.org/exhibits/wov/rosenfeld/deed.html>.
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