Dora Ratjen, German high jumper (died 2008)

Heinrich Ratjen

German high jumper (1918–2008)

Heinrich Ratjen, born Dora 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 some news reports, he was erroneously referred to as Hermann…