1924 France–Czechoslovakia women's athletics match

The **1924 France–Czechoslovakia women's athletics match** was an international women's athletics match where a national team of female French athletes competed against a national team of Czechosolvak athletes. It took place on 14 September 1924 at Stade Pershing in Paris, France.

During the competition two world records were broken. The competition was won by France with 56 points ahead of Czechoslovakia with 41 points.

Two Belgian women took part in a few events outside competition and a few international events were held outside the country match.

## Background

The event took place in the early era of international women’s athletics with the first women’s international tournaments being held from 1921. The event was held two years after the 1922 Women's World Games that took place in Paris.

### 200 metres

|Place|Athlete|Time|Points|Note|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1||26.4 sec|5|NR|
|2||27.4 sec|3||
|3|||2||
|4|||1||

### 50 metres

|Place|Athlete|Time|Points|Note|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1||10.2 sec|5|NR|
|2|||3||
|3|||2||
|4|||1||

### 83 metres hurdles

|Place|Athlete|Time|Points|Note|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1||14.2 sec|5|NR|
|-|||-|outside of competition|
|2|||3||
|3|||2||
|4|||1||

### High jump

|Place|Athlete|Height|Points|Note|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1||1.40 m|5||
||1.40 m|5|||
|-||1.35 m|-|outside of competition|
|3||1.30 m|2||
||1.30 m|1|||

### Shot put

The score was the total of a throw with the right arm and with the left arm.
|Place|Athlete|Right arm|Left arm|Total|Points|Note|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1||10.835 m|9.68 m|20.515 m|5||
|2||10.045 m|8.705 m|18.75 m|3||
|3||9.66 m|8.43 m|18.09 m|2||
|4||8.675 m|7.51 m|16.185 m|1||

### Javelin throw

The score was the total of a throw with the right arm and with the left arm.
|Place|Athlete|Right arm|Left arm|Distance|Points|Note|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1||||47.02 m|5||
|2||25.69 m|_18.28 m_|43.97 m|3||
|3||20.61 m|20.22 m|40.83 m|2||
|4||23.20 m|15.90 m|39.108 m|1||

### Long jump

|Place|Athlete|Distance|Points|Note|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1||5.09 m|5||
|2||4.77 m|3||
|3||4.74 m|2||
|-||4.72 m|-|outside competition|
|4||4.71 m|1||

### Discus throw

|Place|Athlete|Distance|Points|Note|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1||29.44 m|5|WR|
|2||27.90 m or 28.90 m|3||
|3||26.36 m|2||
|4||25.03 m|1||

### 4 x 100 metres relay

|Place|style="width:18em"|Team|style="width:12em"|Time|Points|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|Marguerite Radideau Andree Darreau Germaine Darreau|53.6 sec.||||
|2|? ? ? ?|| + 15 m|||||||

## Overall classification

|Rank|Athlete|Points|
| --- | --- | --- |
|1|||
|2|||

## Events outside country match

A few more events were held outside the country match. During these events two world records were broken. Resel broke the world record in the 880 yards race walk in a time of 4 minutes and 13 seconds, beating the former world record of 4 minutes and 17.4 seconds. Edith Alauze broke the 120 yards hurdles world record with a time of 17.8 seconds.

### 880 yards race walk

|Place|Athlete|Time|Note|
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1||4:13.0|WR|

### 120 yards hurdles

|Place|Athlete|Time|Note|
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1||17.8 s|WR|
|2||||
|3||19.0 s||
|4||||

## Infobox (athletics championships)

- **name**: 1924 France–Czechoslovakia women's athletics match
- **host city**: Paris, France
- **dates**: 14 September
- **stadium**: Stade Pershing
- **events**: 9 (2 more outside competition)
- **stadium image**:
Stade Pershing pictured in 1919
- **level**: Senior
- **type**: Outdoor track and field
- **nations participating**: 2 (1 more outside competition)
- **records set**: 1 World Record (2 more outside competition)
+ 2 other national records