1923 Beerschot Athletic Club international women's athletics meeting

The **1923 Beerschot Athletic Club international women's athletics meeting** was an international women's athletics meeting in Belgium, held in Antwerp. It was organized by the Beerschot Athletic Club where the meeting also took place.

Athletes from England, France, Switzerland and Belgium competed in a total of 14 events.

The meeting was attende by "an extraordinary number of people".

## Background

The eariest women's international athletics competitions were organized in the early 1920s with the main athletics competition prior of this meeting being the: 1921 Women's Olympiad that took place in Monaco in March 1921, the 1922 Women's Olympiad also in Monaco in April 1923 and the 1922 Women's World Games in Paris on 20 August 1923. Earlier women's international athletics competition that were held in Belgium were the 1921 Belgium–France women's athletics match, 1922 Brussels Femina Club international women's athletics meeting and 1923 Belgium–France women's athletics match.

## Entrants

From 8 August 1923 names of the competitors were published.

|Name|
| --- |
|Birchenough|
|Clark|
|Mary Lines|
|Hilda Hatt|
|Nora Callebout|
|Lane|
|Lewman|
|Wright|

|Naam|
| --- |
|Darreau|
|DeMay|
|De Winne|
|Mangars|
|Moepel|
|Petit|
|Robin|
|Tambouret|

|Naam|
| --- |
|Groslimond|

|Naam|
| --- |
|Degrande|
|Dujardin|
|Gils|
|Ibis|
|Silem|
|Vandyck|
|Van Steenlandt|
|Van Truyen|
|Verschueren|

### 1000 metres

|Place|style="width:18em"|Athlete|style="width:12em"|Time|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1||03.2|||
|2||+8 m|||
|3|||||
|4|||||
|5|||||

### 80 meters

|Place|style="width:18em"|Athlete|style="width:12em"|Time|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1||10.2 sec|||
|2|||||
|3|||||
|4|||||
|5|||||
|5|||||

### 83 meters hurdles

|Place|style="width:18em"|Athlete|style="width:12em"|Time|Note|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1||13.8 sec|**=WR**|||
|2||||||
|3||||||
|4||||||

### Shot put

Result is the total of both arms.
|Place|style="width:18em"|Athlete|style="width:12em"|Distance|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1||15.76 m|||
|2||15.45 m|||
|3||15.03 m|||
|4||14.93 m|||
|5||14.65 m|||
|6||14.47 m|||

### High jump

|Place|style="width:18em"|Athlete|style="width:12em"|Height|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1||1.46 m|||
|2||1.38 m|||
|3||1.36 m|||
|4||1.35 m|||
|5|||||

### Long jump

|Place|style="width:18em"|Athlete|style="width:12em"|Distance|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1||5.04 m|||
|2||4.86 m|||
|3||4.65 m|||
|4||4.45 m|||
|4||4.30 m|||

### 250 meters

|Place|style="width:18em"|Athlete|style="width:12em"|Time|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1||35.4 sec|||
|2|||||
|3|||||
|4|||||
|5|||||
|6|||||

### Discus throw

Result is the total of both arms.
|Place|style="width:18em"|Athlete|style="width:12em"|Distance|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1||45.32 m|||
|2||44.84 m|||
|3||43.55 m|||

### 4 x 200 metres relay

|Place|style="width:18em"|Team|style="width:12em"|Time|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1||54.4 sec.|||
|2|||||
|3|||||

### Javelin throw

Result is the total of both arms.
|Place|style="width:18em"|Athlete|style="width:12em"|Distance|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1||44.64 m|||
|2||37.70 m|||
|3||33.85 m|||

### 150-600-300 metres relay

|Place|style="width:18em"|Team|style="width:12em"|Time|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1||3:06.8|||
|2|||||

### 4 x 80 metres relay

|Place|style="width:18em"|Team|style="width:12em"|Time|Note|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|Beerschot A. C. Bertels Verschueren Ibis Vanderhaegen || 43 sec ||  **NR**|||||
|2|Beerschot A. C. II|||||
|3|Brussels F.C.|||||
|4|Berchem Sport|||||

### 4 x 150 metres relay

|Place|style="width:18em"|Team|style="width:12em"|Time|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|Beerschot A. C.|1:27.2|||
|2|Maccabi||||
|3|Berchem Sport||||
|4|Brussels F.C.||||

### 150-600-300-150 metres relay

|Place|style="width:18em"|Team|style="width:12em"|Time|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|Brussels F.C.|3:36.6|||
|2|Berchem Sport||||
|3|Beerschot||||

## Infobox (athletics championships)

- **name**: 1923 Beerschot Athletic Club international women's athletics meeting
- **host city**: Antwerp, Belgium
- **dates**: 13 August 1923
- **stadium**: Venue of the K. Beerschot V.A.C., Beerschot Athletic Club
- **events**: 11 (international>
3 (national)
- **level**: Senior
- **type**: Outdoor track and field
- **nations participating**: 4
- **records set**: 1 Belgian national record