How Did It Take 48 Years For a Canadian Woman To Win An Olympic Gold Medal?

The winner of the women’s hundred-meter race at the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics was a Polish athlete named Stanislawa Walasiewicz.

The silver medalist was Canadian Hilde Strike.

In 1980, when the Polish gold medalist was tragically killed as an innocent bystander during a bank robbery, the ensuing autopsy discovered that she was a he, and Strike was ultimately declared the winner.