1923 Czechoslovakia–France women's athletics match (10 May)

The **1923 Czechoslovakia–France women's athletics match** was an international women's athletics match where a national team of Czechoslovak athletes competed against a national team of French athletes. It took place on 10 May 1923 in Brno, Czechoslovakia.

The French team won the match. Lucie Prost and Georgette Gagneux broke a French national record during the event.

## French tour in Czechoslovakia

It was the second Czechoslovakia–France match during the stay of the French team in Czechoslovakia in May 1923. The other match took place on 6 May in Prague. There was also a third match scheduled for Sunday in Prague, but because results are unknown it's likely this event was cancelled.

It was scheduled the French team would return by train and would arrive in Paris on 17 May 1923 at Gare de l'Est on 9:35am. Mrs. Millat and Miss Bracquemont traveled by plane.

## 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. It was the third women's athletics match between Czechoslovakia and France with the first match held in Paris in 1922 that was won by Czechoslovakia with 41 versus 34 points.

## Match format

In each individual event two athletes of each nation competed and one team of four athletes in the relay event. The first athlete in the individual events scored 5 points, the number two 3 points, number three 2 points and the number four 1 point. The country that won the relay event scored 6 points and the other country 3 points. For the overall classification all the points scored by each country are added together.

### Javelin throw

|Place|Athlete|Distance|Points|Note|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|||5||
|2|||3||
|3|||2||
|4|||1||

### 65 metres hurdles

|Place|Athlete|Time|Points|Note|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1||11.4 sec|5||
|2||11.6 sec|3||
|3|||2||
|4|||1||

### High jump

|Place|Athlete|Height|Points|Note|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1||1.37 m|5||
|2||1.34 m|3||
||1.34 m|3|||
|4|||1||

### 60 metres

|Place|Athlete|Time|Points|Note|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1||8.0 sec|5|**NR**|
|2||8.2 sec|3||
|3|||2||
|4|||1||

### Shot put (3.628 kg)

The score was the total of a throw with both arms.
|Place|Athlete|Distance|Points|Note|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1||9.695 (one arm)|5||
|2||15.18 m|3||
|3|||2||
|4|||1||

### 200 metres

|Place|Athlete|Time|Points|Note|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1||28.0 sec|5|**NR**|
|2||29.2 sec|3||
|3||36.4 sec|2||
|4|||1||

### Long jump

|Place|Athlete|Distance|Points|Note|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1||4.57 m|5||
|2||4.34 m|3||
|3||4.30 m|2||
|4||4.015 m|1||

### 4 x 100 metres relay

|Place|style="width:18em"|Team|style="width:12em"|Time|Points|Note|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|Marguerite Drouard Georgette Gagneux Lucienne Velu|| 53.8 sec ||6 ||||||||
|2|||3||||

## Infobox (athletics championships)

- **name**: 1923 Czechoslovakia–France women's athletics match
- **host city**: Brno, Czechoslovakia
- **dates**: 10 May 1923
- **events**: 8
- **level**: Senior
- **type**: Outdoor track and field
- **nations participating**: 2
- **records set**: 2 French national records