title: Dora Gardner
text: # Dora Gardner
  
  Dora Kathleen Gardner (6 May 1912 – June 1994) was an English track and field athlete who competed for Great Britain in the 1948 Olympic Games. She was born in Croydon.
  
  In 1948 she finished eighth in the Olympic high jump contest.
  
  At the 1938 British Empire Games she won the silver medal in the high jump event. In the long jump competition she finished seventh.
  
  In the 1938 European Athletics Championships she finished fifth in the high jump contest and in the 1946 European Championships in Athletics she finished seventh in the high jump event.
  
  She died in Bournemouth.
  
  