1923 WAAA Championships
1923 WAAA Championships | |
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Dates | 18 August |
Host city | London, Great Britain |
Venue | Oxo Sports Ground |
Level | Senior |
Type | Outdoor |
1924 → |
The 1923 WAAA Championships were the first national track and field championships for women in the UK.[1][2][3][4][5] The tournament was held on 18 August[6] 1923[7] at the Oxo Sport Grounds[8] in London, United Kingdom.
Background
After the successful first
”national” women’s track meet were held.In 1923[6] the WAAA[3][8] now organised the first official[1] British women championships[2] in track and field (WAAA[5] Championships[7]). In the US the "Amateur Athletic Union" (AAU) sponsored the first national championship for women in track and field on 29 September 1923.
Events
The meet was held on 18 August[3] at the Oxo Sport Grounds[8][1] in Downham,[2] Bromley[5][6] in South London.
The athletes[2] competed[1] in 11 events:[5][8] running 100 yards, 220 yards, 440 yards, 880 yards, relay race 660 yards, hurdling 120 yards, high jump, long jump, shot put, javelin and track walk[4] 880 yards. 3 unofficial world records[3][6] were set:[7] Mary Lines in running 440 yards and hurdles 120 yards and Edith Trickey in track walk 880 yards. The tournament was a huge promotion for women's sports.
Results
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
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100-yard run
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Mary Lines (Polytechnic Ladies Athletic Club) | 12.0 sec | Rose Thompson | Evelyn Harris | ||
220-yard run
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Eileen Edwards | 27.0 sec | Rose Thompson | Vera Palmer | ||
440-yard run
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Mary Lines (Polytechnic Ladies Athletic Club) | 62.4 sec WR | Louise Low | P Batt | ||
880-yard run
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Edith Trickey (Polytechnic Ladies Athletic Club) | 2:40.2 min | Gladys Lane | Phyllis Hall | ||
660-yard relay | London Olympiades "A" | 1:22.6 min | Manor Park Athletics Club | London Olympiades "B" | ||
120-yard hurdles
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Mary Lines (Polytechnic Ladies Athletic Club) | 18.8 sec WR | Sophie Eliott-Lynn (Polytechnic Ladies Athletic Club) |
Hilda Hatt (Polytechnic Ladies Athletic Club) | DQ | |
High jump | Hilda Hatt (Polytechnic Ladies Athletic Club) | 4 ft 9 inches / 1.45 m | Ivy Lowman | 4 feet 8 inches / 1.42 m | Sylvia Stone | 4 feet 7 inches / 1.40 m |
Long jump | Mary Lines (Polytechnic Ladies Athletic Club) | 16 ft 3.5 inches / 4.96 m | Hilda Hatt (Polytechnic Ladies Athletic Club) | 15 ft 11.5 inches / 4.86 m | Gladys Elliott | 15 ft 7 inches / 4.66 m |
Shot put(8 lb) | Florence Birchenough (Polytechnic Ladies Athletic Club) | 16.17 (yds?) | Beatrice Manton | 16.00 | Sophie Eliott-Lynn (Polytechnic Ladies Athletic Club) |
15.78 |
Two-handed javelin
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Sophie Eliott-Lynn (Polytechnic Ladies Athletic Club) |
35.76 (yds?) | E Willis | 31.08 | Sylvia Stone | 30.53 |
880-yard track walk | Edith Trickey | 4:35.0 min WR | Betty Keeling | D Clark |
Many of the participating athletes also competed in the 1924 Women's Olympiad at Stamford Bridge.
References
- ^ a b c d e "British Athletics Championships 1919-1939". GBR Athletics. Retrieved 8 March 2018.
- ^ a b c d e "The inaugural WAAA championships". Runner 500. Retrieved 8 March 2018.
- ^ a b c d "World records set in Britain". GBR Athletics. Retrieved 8 March 2018.
- ^ a b "Race walking". Race Walking Association. Archived from the original on 29 November 2014. Retrieved 8 March 2018.
- ^ a b c d "Robinson, Lynne: Tripping Daintily Into The Arena" (PDF). University of Warwick, 1996 (Thesis), page 110-111. Retrieved 8 March 2018.
- ^ a b c d "British world record breakers". GBR Athletics. Retrieved 8 March 2018.
- ^ a b c "AAA, WAAA and National Championships Medallists". National Union of Track Statisticians. Retrieved 8 March 2018.
- ^ a b c d "Duval, Lynne: The Development of Women's Track and Field in England" (PDF). The Sports Historian May 2001, vol. 21, nr 1, p 10-11 (LA84.org). Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 August 2016. Retrieved 8 March 2018.
- ^ Athletic News, Monday 20 August 1923