Janina Skirlińska

Janina Skirlińska (8 March 1907 – 23 April 1993) was a Polish artistic gymnast. She competed at the 1936 Summer Olympics.[2] She was a member of the Polish women's team at those Olympics, where they placed 6th in the team competition. Previously, she competed at the 1934 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships where she was the 3rd-place finisher. Additionally, at the second-ever World Championships for women in 1938, in the all-around individual standings, she was the 4th-place finisher, the highest-finishing non-Czechoslovakian female competitor at those championships in Prague, Czechoslovakia.[3]

Janina Skirlińska
Janina Skirlińska in 1932
Personal information
Country represented	Poland
Born	March 8, 1907
Died	April 23, 1993 (aged 86)
Discipline	Women's artistic gymnastics
Medal record Representing  Czechoslovakia World Championships 1934 Budapest All-Around[1]

Those very respectable placements of hers at the first-and-second-ever World Championships for women stand in extreme contrast against her 40th-place finish at the 1936 Berlin Summer Olympics where none of the 6 of her routines (both compulsory and voluntary exercises on each of the three events) were marked among the highest of the competitors. Skirlińska's extreme misfortune at the 1936 Berlin Summer Olympics parallels, with immediately adjacent juxtapositioning, the misfortune of Hungary's Margit Kalocsai, who finished just above Skirlińska, in 2nd place, in the individual standings at the 1934 Worlds, yet just below her at the 1936 Berlin Olympics in 41st place.

References

1. https://usagym.org/PDFs/Results/worlds_artistic_results_1934.pdf
2. "Janina Skirlińska" Archived 2013-02-04 at the Wayback Machine. sports-reference.com. Retrieved May 28, 2013.
3. "Ceskoslovensko dobyva mistrovstvi sveta v telocviku" [Czechoslovakia Conquers the World Championships in Gymnastics]. Venkov (in Czech). July 2, 1938. Retrieved December 21, 2020.