1928 Germany–Netherlands women's athletics competition

The 1928 Germany-Netherlands women's athletics competition was an international women's athletics competition on 24 June 1928 in Lennep (near Elberfeld), Germany.
The competition was the second international competition for Dutch women after the 1928 Belgium-Netherlands women's athletics competition three weeks earlier. The competition was organized as a "try-out" for the Olympics but moreover to gain international experience in preparation for the 1928 Summer Olympics.
The competition was won by the Netherlands with 48 points versus Germany with 42 points.
Background and preparations
For the first time, women's athletic events would be held at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. As the Dutch women's didn't have international experience the Royal Dutch Athletics Federation organized two international competition. Two international competitions that included the 5 Olympic events for women were organised to gain the international experience. The coach of the team was B. Verwaal.
On 24 June, the day of the competition, the Dutch national athletes travelled by train to Oberhousen together with coach B. Verwaal and jury members J. M. Hardeman and D. J. de Vries.
Competition format
The competition consisted of 5 events: 100 metres, 800 metres, 4x 100 metres relay, high jump and discus throw. The overall classification is a nation's classification. In the four individual events three athletes of each nation participated. The winner of the event received for the nation 6 points, the number 2 received 5 points, number 3 received 4 points etc. The nation winning the relay event wins 4 points and the other nation received 2 points. For the overall classication all points from each country are added together.
Entrants
The Twelve Dutch athlethes were selected by the Royal Dutch Athletics Federation and announced ahead of the competition.
The competition had Dutch and German jury members including from the Netherlands D. J. de Vries and J. M. Hardeman.
Competition
The competition was opened with a presentation of the teams followed with speaches of the mayor of Lennep, representatives of the Westdeutscher Spiel-Verband and a reply of D. J. de Vries.
100 metres
There was a head wind during the 100 metres. Just as at the 1928 Belgium-Netherlands women's athletics competition, the three Dutchwomen won the event. Now with Nettie Grooss, who had in bad start in the Belgian competition, in first place. In different sources the places of German women are in different positions.
800 metres
The 800 metres event was won by German Elfriede Werner. The Dutch Jo Mallon who finished second also recieived tribute in the newspaper about her time.
High jump
World champion Lien Gisolf won the high jump event after jumping 1.45 metres. After this result the high jump event stopped, while Gisolf might have been able to jump higher.
Discus throw
Grete Heublein won the discus throw event ahead of Hilde Krewett and Lena Michaelis. Different newspapers lists different distances. Below are the results listed of newspaper Het Vaderland, as in other sources the distance of the 6th place is further compared to the 5th place and so unlikely to be correct.
4x 100 metres relay
Overall classification
References
Women's athletics
Sport in the Netherlands
Sport in Germany
1928 in sports
1928 in Europe