Athletics at the 1934 Women's World Games – pentathlon

The **pentathlon** at the 1934 Women's World Games was held at the White City Stadium in London, from 9 to 11 August 1934.

It was the first time a pentathlon event was held at the Women's World Games, after the triatlon event in 1930.

The German Gisela Mauermayer won the event in a new pentathlon world record with 377 points ahead of German Grete Busch and Czechoslovak Štepánka Pekárová. Already after the fourth event Mauermayer it became sure she would set a new world record.

## Entrants

On 9 August an incomple list was published of participating athletes. This list consisted of athletes from seven nations: Austria, Czechslovakia, Great Britain, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland. Listed below are the athletes from these nations who were entered for the pentathlon event.

Note that there are some discrepancies with those names and the names listed in newspapers during the competition.

### 100 metres

The 100 metres was the first event

#### Heat 1

|Rank|Name|Nationality|Time|Notes|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|Štepánka Pekárová||12.8"||
|2|Marjorie Okell||13.2"||

#### Heat 2

|Rank|Name|Nationality|Time|Notes|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|Irene Phillips||13.2"||
|2|Pierina Borsani||13.4"||

#### Heat 3

|Rank|Name|Nationality|Time|Notes|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|Gerda Gottlieb||13.0"||
|2|Grete Busch||13.2"||

#### Heat 4

|Rank|Name|Nationality|Time|Notes|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|Gisela Mauermayer||13.0"||

#### Heat 5

|Rank|Name|Nationality|Time|Notes|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|Marjorie Clark||13.0"||

#### Heat 6

|Rank|Name|Nationality|Time|Notes|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|Ruth Svedberg||13.2"||
|2|Maria Kwaśniewska||14.2"||
Sources:

### Long jump

The long jump was the 2nd event.
|Rank|Name|Nationality|Distance|Notes|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
||Gisela Mauermayer||5.51 m.||
Source:

### Javelin throw

The javelin throw was the 3rd event.
|Rank|Name|Nationality|Distance|Notes|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
||Gisela Mauermayer||32.95 m.||
Source:

### Shot put

The shot put was the 4th event.
|Rank|Name|Nationality|Distance|Notes|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
||Gisela Mauermayer||13.44 m.||
Source:

### High jump

The high jump was the 5th and last event.
|Rank|Name|Nationality|Height|Notes|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
||Gisela Mauermayer||1.52 m.||
Source:

## Overall classification

|Rank|Name|Nationality|Points|100m|Long jump|Javelin|Shot put||Notes||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
||Gisela Mauermayer||377 pts.|13.0"|5.51 m|32.95 m|13.44 m|1.52 m|**WR**|
||Grete Busch||320 pts.|13.2"||||||
||Štepánka Pekárová||316 pts.|12.8"||||||
|4|Pierina Borsani||296 pts.|13.4"||||||
|5|Marjorie Clark||258 pts.|13.0"||||||
|6|Maria Kwaśniewska||245 pts.|14.2"||||||
|?|Gerda Gottlieb|||13.0"||||||
|?|Marjorie Okell|||13.2"||||||
|?|Irene Phillips|||13.2"||||||
|?|Ruth Svedberg|||13.2"||||||

Sources:

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## Infobox (sports competition event)

- **event**: pentathlon
- **competition**: 1934 Women's World Games
- **venue**: White City Stadium
- **location**: London
- **win score**: 377 points **WR**
- **gold**: Gisela Mauermayer
- **silver**: Grete Busch
- **bronze**: Štepánka Pekárová
- **gold nation**: Germany
- 1933
- **silver nation**: Germany
- 1933
- **bronze nation**: TCH
- **previous**: Athletics at the 1930 Women's World Games – triathlon, 1930 (triathlon)