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.

+British athletesName BirchenoughClarkMary Lines Hilda Hatt Nora CalleboutLane Lewman Wright

+French athletesNaam Darreau DeMay De Winne Mangars MoepelPetit Robin Tambouret

+Swiss athletesNaam Groslimond

+Belgian athletesNaamDegrande DujardinGilsIbis Silem Vandyck Van Steenlandt Van Truyen Verschueren

Results
1000 metres
Place Athlete Time 1  03.2 2  +8 m 3   4  5 

80 meters
+80 m (final)Place Athlete Time 1  10.2 sec   2   3   4  5  5 

83 meters hurdles
Place Athlete TimeNote 1  13.8 sec  =WR 2   3   4 

Shot put
Result is the total of both arms.
+Shot putPlace Athlete Distance1 15.76 m2 15.45 m3 15.03 m4 14.93 m5 14.65 m6 14.47 m

High jump
Place Athlete Height 1 1.46 m 2 1.38 m3 1.36 m41.35 m5

Long jump
Place Athlete Distance 1  5.04 m 2  4.86 m 3  4.65 m44.45 m44.30 m

250 meters
Place Athlete Time 1  35.4 sec 2   3   4  5  6 

Discus throw
Result is the total of both arms.
Place Athlete Distance1  45.32 m2  44.84 m3  43.55 m

4 x 200 metres relay
Place Team Time 1  54.4 sec.   2   3   

Javelin throw
Result is the total of both arms.
Place Athlete Distance1  44.64 m2  37.70 m3  33.85 m

150-600-300 metres relay
Place Team Time 1  3:06.8   2  

National events
4 x 80 metres relay
Place Team Time  Note 1 Beerschot A. C.BertelsVerschuerenIbisVanderhaegen  43 sec   NR 2 Beerschot A. C. II   3 Brussels F.C.   4 Berchem Sport  

4 x 150 metres relay
Place Team Time 1 Beerschot A. C.  1:27.2 2 Maccabi  3 Berchem Sport  4 Brussels F.C. 

150-600-300-150 metres relay
Place Team Time 1 Brussels F.C. 3:36.6   2 Berchem Sport  3 Beerschot 

References

Category:1923 in women's athletics
Category:Sport in Belgium
Category:1923 in Europe
Category:1920s in Belgium
Category:Antwerp