Field athlete; specialized in high jump and shot put.
Inducted into the National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1995.
Because of her Judaism beliefs the Nazis put a stop to her taking part in the 1936 Berlin Olympics, in which she left Germany and vowed never to return.
The Olympic Park in Berlin, Germany, in August 2014, changed a street name to ""Gretel-Bergmann-Weg" in her honour.