1923 Twente–Westphalia athletics competition

The **1923 Twente–Westphalia athletics meeting** was an international athletics meeting between athletes of Westphalia, Germany and Twente, the Netherlands. The meeting included a total 15 events: 11 events for men and 4 events for women. It was one of the earliest international female athletics competitions. The meeting was held at the  in Enschede, the Netherlands on 8 July 1923.

The competition was the first Twente–Westphalia athletics competition. It is probably the second international women's athletics tournament in the Netherlands after the 1922 Pro Patria women's international athletics competition a year earlier.

The competition was won by the Westphalia with 78 points versus Twente with 66 points.

Requests were made to include during the meeting record attempts to break Dutch records. This was approved by the chairman of the Dutch athletics association who was present. Harke (Olympia-Hengelo) broke the national record in the women's long jump with a distance of with 4.67 metres, beating the previous record of 4.55 of Annie van de Blankevoort. Franken (Hercules Hebe-Enschede) broke the women's 80 metres record with a time of with 10.5 seconds, beating the previous record of 10.7 seconds also of Annie van de Blankevoort.

## Preparations

In the four weeks ahead of the competition, the selection group of Twente trained with national athletics trainer Hjertberg.

## Competition format

In each individual event two athletes of each team competed. In the relay event the two teams competed against each other. The winner of each event received 4 points, with 3, 2 and 1 point for the other positions. For the overall classication all points from each teams are added together.

## Competition

According to the newspapers the competition were held in "tropical heat".
- Men's

|Place|style="width:18em"|Athlete|style="width:12em"|Time|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1||10.9"|||
|2||11.0"|||
|3||11.3"|||
|4||11.4"|||

|Place|style="width:18em"|Athlete|style="width:12em"|Time|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1||53.2|||
|2||53.3|||
|3||59.9|||
|4||63.2|||

|Place|style="width:18em"|Athlete|style="width:12em"|Time|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1||2' 1.7"|||
|2||2' 6.3"|||
|3||2' 22.6"|||
|3||2' 22.6"|||

|Place|style="width:18em"|Athlete|style="width:12em"|Time|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1||4' 28.2"|||
|2||4' 33.2"|||
|3||4' 38.2"|||
|4||4' 42.2"|||

|Place|style="width:18em"|Athlete|style="width:12em"|Time|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1||17.5"|||
|2||17.8"|||
|3||20.4"|||
|4|||||

|Place|style="width:18em"|Team|style="width:12em"|Time|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|Westphalia|44"|||
|2|Twente|45.7"|||

|Place|style="width:18em"|Athlete|style="width:12em"|Height|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1||6.11 m.|||
|2||6.08 m.|||
|3||5.68 m.|||
|4||5.48 m.|||

|Place|style="width:18em"|Athlete|style="width:12em"|Height|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1||1.75 m.|||
|2||1.65 m.|||
|3||1.60 m.|||
|4||1.55 m.|||

|Place|style="width:18em"|Athlete|style="width:12em"|Distance|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1||37.80 m.|||
|2||35.49 m.|||
|3||28.50 m.|||
|4||27.69 m.|||

|Place|style="width:18em"|Athlete|style="width:12em"|Distance|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1||45.35 m.|||
|2||44.11 m.|||
|3||43.87 m.|||
|4||43.40 m.|||

|Place|style="width:18em"|Athlete|style="width:12em"|Height|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1||3.35 m.|||
|2||3.30  m.|||
|3||3.10 m.|||
|4||2.90 m.|||

- Women's

|Place|style="width:18em"|Athlete|style="width:12em"|Time|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1||10.2"|||
|2||10.4"|||
|3||10.6"|||
|4||11.6"|||

|Place|style="width:18em"|Athlete|style="width:12em"|Distance|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1||4.86 m.|||
|2||4.65 m.|||
|3||4.35 m.|||
|4||4.19 m.|||

|Place|style="width:18em"|Athlete|style="width:12em"|Height|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1||1.35 m.|||
|2||1.30 m.|||
|3||1.30 m.|||
|4||1.30 m.|||

|Place|style="width:18em"|Athlete|style="width:12em"|Distance|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1||33.60 m.|||
|2||25.07 m.|||
|3||23.77 m.|||
|4||23.53 m.|||

Source:

## Overall classification

|Rank|Athlete|Points|
| --- | --- | --- |
|1|Westphalia||
|2|Twente||

Source:

## Related pages

- 1922 Pro Patria women's international athletics competition

## Infobox (athletics championships)

- **name**: 1923 Twente–Westphalia athletics meeting
- **host city**: Enschede, the Netherlands
- **dates**: 8 July 1923
- **events**: 15 (men: 11, women: 4)
- **level**: Senior
- **type**: Outdoor track and field
- **nations participating**: 2
- **next**: 1924 Westphalia–Twente athletics competition, 1924