1926 Women's World Games

The 1926 Women's World Games (Swedish: II. Internationella kvinnliga idrottsspelen or French: 2èmes jeux féminins mondiaux) were the second edition of the Women's World Games from 27 to 29 August 1926 in Gothenburg, Sweden. The games took place at the Slottsskogsvallen Stadium. 71 athletes from eight countries entered for the Games. The athletics competitions consisted of twelve events.

1926 Women's World Games

Host city	Gothenburg
Country	Sweden
Nations participating	8
Athletes participating	71
Opening ceremony	27 August 1930 (1930-08-27)
Dates	27–29 August 1926
Main venue	Slottsskogsvallen Stadium
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Parade of nations during the opening ceremony

Events

The games were organized by the Fédération Sportive Féminine Internationale under Alice Milliat as a response to the International Olympic Committee's decision not to include women's events in the 1924 Olympic Games.

The games attracted 20,000 spectators and saw several world records being set.

Opening Ceremony

The Games started with an Olympic-style opening ceremony. The ceremony included a parade of nations where athletes marched into the stadium, delegation-by-delegation, with the flag carried by one of the athletes. The ceremony was attended by among others Gustaf V of Sweden. Mary von Sydow, wife of Oscar von Sydow, gave the opening speech.

Participating nations

On 29 August 1926 an entry list of 71 athletes from eight nations was published. However, while 16 athletes were listed for Sweden, only 13 were present on the group image.

• Belgium (4)
• France (9)
• United Kingdom (19)
• Japan (1)
• Poland (7)
• Czechoslovakia (11)
• Sweden (details) (16)
• Latvia (4)

Results

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
60 m	Marguerite Radideau  France	7.8	Florence Haynes  Great Britain	7.8	Rose Thompson  Great Britain	7.8
100 yd	Marguerite Radideau  France	11.8	Rose Thompson  Great Britain	11.8	Kinue Hitomi  Japan	12.0
250 m	Eileen Edwards  Great Britain	33.4	Vera Palmer  Great Britain	34.6	Marguerite Radideau  France	35.4
1000 m	Edith Trickey  Great Britain	3:08.8	Inga Gentzel  Sweden	3:09.4	Louise Bellon  France	3:10.4
100 yds hurdles	Ludmila Sychrová  Czechoslovakia	14.4	Edith White  Great Britain	14.8	Hilda Hatt  Great Britain	15.0
4×110 yds relay	Great Britain Dorothy Scouler Florence Haynes Eileen Edwards Rose Thompson	49.8	France Louise Bellon Geneviève Laloz Yolande Plancke Marguerite Radideau	51.2	Czechoslovakia Zdena Smolová Ludmila Sychrová Štepánka Kucerová Marie Vidláková	52.8
1000 m track walk	Daisy Crossley  Great Britain	5:10.0	Albertine Regel  France	5:12.4	—	—
High jump	Hélène Bons  France	1.50 m	Hilda Hatt  Great Britain	1.45 m	Inga Broman  Sweden	1.45 m
Long jump	Kinue Hitomi  Japan	5.50 m	Muriel Gunn  Great Britain	5.44 m	Zdena Smolová  Czechoslovakia	5.28 m
Standing long jump	Kinue Hitomi  Japan	2.49 m	Zdena Smolová  Czechoslovakia	2.47 m	Barbara Holliday  Great Britain	2.37 m
Discus throw	Halina Konopacka  Poland	37.71 m	Kinue Hitomi  Japan	33.62 m	Elsa Svensson  Sweden	31.78 m
Javelin throw (two hands)	Anne-Lisa Adelsköld  Sweden	49.15 m	Louise Fawcett  Great Britain	45.41 m	Elsa Haglund  Sweden	45.06 m
Shot put (two hands)	Marie Vidláková  Czechoslovakia	19.54 m	Elsa Svensson  Sweden	19.42 m	Halina Konopacka  Poland	19.25 m

• Note: Each athlete in the shot put and javelin throw events threw using their right hand, then their left. Their final mark was the total of the best mark with their right-handed throw and the best mark with their left-handed throw.

Points table

Place	Nation	Points
1	United Kingdom	50
2	France	27
3	Sweden	20
4	Czechoslovakia	19
5	Japan	15
6	Poland	7
7	Latvia	1

Source:

Other websites

• Picture of the Belgian team
• Picture of the British team
• Picture of the Czechoslovakian team
• Film (SVT) from the 1926 Women's World Games Archived 2018-10-30 at the Wayback Machine
• Film (British Pathé) 1926 Women's World Games
• Mixed pictures from the 1926 Women's World Games