It’s a simple act to name a track and field area after someone but not a simple declaration considering where Lambert is coming from.
In 1936, she won a regional meet in Stuttgart, Germany with a scissor style high jump of 1.60m (5’3”). The height tied the national high jump record making her the number one high jumper in Germany. Although she was on the German Olympic team scheduled to compete in the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, the Nazis eliminated her record and took her off the Olympic team because she was Jewish. Her jump of 1.60m would be the gold medal height at the Berlin Olympics.
