1928 Germany–Netherlands women's athletics competition

The **1928 Germany–Netherlands women's athletics competition** was an international women's athletics competition on 24 June 1928 in Lennep (near Elberfeld), Germany.

The competition was the second international competition for Dutch women after the 1928 Belgium–Netherlands women's athletics competition three weeks earlier. The competition was organized as a "try-out" for the Olympics but moreover to gain international experience in preparation for the 1928 Summer Olympics.

The competition was won by the Netherlands with 48 points versus Germany with 42 points.

## Background and preparations

For the first time, women's athletic events would be held at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. As the Dutch women's did not have international experience the Royal Dutch Athletics Federation organized two international competition. Two international competitions that included the 5 Olympic events for women were organised to gain the international experience. The coach of the team was B. Verwaal.

On 24 June, the day of the competition, the Dutch national athletes travelled by train to Oberhousen together with coach B. Verwaal and jury members J. M. Hardeman and D. J. de Vries.

## Competition format

The competition consisted of 5 events: 100 metres, 800 metres, 4x 100 metres relay, high jump and discus throw. The overall classification is a nation's classification. In the four individual events three athletes of each nation participated. The winner of the event received for the nation 6 points, the number 2 received 5 points, number 3 received 4 points etc. The nation winning the relay event wins 4 points and the other nation received 2 points. For the overall classication all points from each country are added together.

## Entrants

The Twelve Dutch athlethes were selected by the Royal Dutch Athletics Federation and announced ahead of the competition.

|Naam|Club|Event||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan=2|Lies Aengenendt|rowspan=2|Hygiea, The Hague|100 m||
|4x 100 metres relay||||||
|rowspan=2|Rie Briejer|rowspan=2|Brünhilde, Leiden|100 m||
|4x 100 metres relay||||||
|Yvonne Buisma|Aalsmeer|High jump||||
|rowspan=2|Bets Dekens|rowspan=2|Eclecta, Groningen||High jump|
||Discus throw|||||
|Mien Duchateau|te Werve, The Hague|800 m||||
|Lien Gisolf|Hygiea, The Hague|High jump||||
|rowspan=2|Nettie Grooss|rowspan=2|Hygiea, The Hague|100 m||
|4x 100 metres relay||||||
|Bets ter Horst|AV Twenthe|4x 100 metres relay||||
|Jeanne van Kesteren||800 m||||
|Jo Mallon|Quick, Gouda|800 m||||
|Lena Michaëlis|te Werve, The Hague||Discus throw|||
|Nici Mür|Hygiea, The Hague||Discus throw|||

|Naam|Club|Event|||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan=2|Kathe Erfling|rowspan=2|SV Duisburg|100 m|
|4x 100 metres relay|||||
|Fuseler||Discus throw|||
|rowspan=2|M. Hausmann|rowspan=2||100 m|
|4x 100 metres relay|||||
|Margarete Hermann||800 m|||
|Grete Heublein||Discus throw|||
|Horchler||High jump|||
|Hilde Krewett||Discus throw|||
|Louise Müller||800 m|||
|rowspan=2|Felicitas Schlarp|rowspan=2|Post SV Köln|100 m|
|4x 100 metres relay|||||
|Elisabeth Weck|SV Solingen|High jump|||
|Weiszgerber||High jump|||
|rowspan=2|Elfriede Wever|rowspan=2||800 m|
|4x 100 metres relay|||||

The competition had Dutch and German jury members including from the Netherlands D. J. de Vries and J. M. Hardeman.

## Competition

The competition was opened with a presentation of the teams followed with speaches of the mayor of Lennep, representatives of the Westdeutscher Spiel-Verband and a reply of D. J. de Vries.

### 100 metres

There was a head wind during the 100 metres. Just as at the 1928 Belgium–Netherlands women's athletics competition, the three Dutchwomen won the event. Now with Nettie Grooss, who had in bad start in the Belgian competition, in first place. In different sources the places of German women are in different positions.

|Place|style="width:18em"|Athlete|style="width:12em"|Time|Points|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1||14 sec.|6|||
|2|||5|||
|3|||4|||
|4-6|||3|||
|||2||||
|||1||||

|Nation|Points|
| --- | --- |
||6|
||15|

### 800 metres

The 800 metres event was won by German Elfriede Werner. The Dutch Jo Mallon who finished second also recieived tribute in the newspaper about her time.

|Place|style="width:18em"|Athlete|style="width:12em"|Time|Points|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1||2:34.8|6|||
|2||2:37.4|5|||
|3|||4|||
|4|||3|||
|5|||2|||
|6|||1|||

|Nation|Points|
| --- | --- |
||11|
||10|

### High jump

World champion Lien Gisolf won the high jump event after jumping 1.45 metres. After this result the high jump event stopped, while Gisolf might have been able to jump higher.

|Place|style="width:18em"|Athlete|style="width:12em"|Height|Points|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1||1.55|6|||
|2||1.45|5|||
|3||1.40|3|||
||1.40|3||||
||1.40|3||||
|6||1.35|1|||

|Nation|Points|
| --- | --- |
||9|
||12|

### Discus throw

Grete Heublein won the discus throw event ahead of Hilde Krewett and Lena Michaëlis. Different newspapers lists different distances. Below are the results listed of newspaper Het Vaderland, as in other sources the distance of the 6th place is further compared to the 5th place and so unlikely to be correct.

|Place|style="width:18em"|Athlete|style="width:12em"|Distance|Points|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1||33.68|6|||
|2||30.36|5|||
|3||26.46|4|||
|4||23.63|3|||
|5||23.40|2|||
|6||23.03|1|||

|Nation|Points|
| --- | --- |
||14|
||7|

### 4x 100 metres relay

|Place|style="width:18em"|Team|style="width:12em"|Time|Points|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|Bets ter Horst Lies Aengenendt Rie Briejer Nettie Grooss|| 51.4 sec. || 4|||||
|2|Elfriede Wever M. Hausmann Kathe Erfling Felicitas Schlarp|| + 4-5 m. || 2|||||

## Overall classification

|Rank|Athlete|Points|100m|800m|HJ|DT|Rel|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1||||||||
|15|10|12|7|4||||
|1||||||||
|6|11|9|14|2||||

## Infobox (athletics championships)

- **name**: 1928 Germany–Netherlands women's athletics competition
- **host city**: Lennep, Germany
- **dates**: 24 June 1928
- **events**: 5
- **level**: Senior
- **type**: Outdoor track and field
- **athletes participating**: 24
- **nations participating**: 2
- **previous**: 1928 Belgium–Netherlands women's athletics competition, 1928 (NED–BEL)
- **next**: 1929 Netherlands–Germany women's athletics competition, 1929 (NED–GER)