1922 Women's Olympiad

Host city	Monte Carlo
Country	Monaco
Dates	15–23 April 1922
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The 1922 Women's Olympiad (Jeux Athlétiques Internationaux Féminins and Jeux Olympiques Féminins) was the second^[1] international women's sports event, a 7-day multi-sport event organised by Alice Milliat and held on 15^[2][3]– April 23^[4][5][6][7] 1922^[8][9] in Monte Carlo^[10] at the International Sporting Club of Monaco. The tournament was formally called "Deuxiéme Meeting International d'Éducation Physique Féminine". It was also the second of three Women's Olympiads or "Monte Carlo Games"^[11] held annually at the venue in Monaco,^[12][13] and the second^[14] forerunner of the quadrennial Women's World Games, organised in 1922–34 by the International Women's Sports Federation founded by Milliat in late 1921.

The games were organized^[7] as the previous 1921 Women's Olympiad by Fédération des Sociétés Féminines Sportives de France (FSFSF)^[10] under Alice Milliat^[8] and Camille Blanc,^[2] director^[13] of the "International Sporting Club de Monaco" as a response to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) decision not to include women's events in the 1924 Olympic Games.

The games were attended by 300^[6][7][9] participants^[8][14][1] from 7 nations:^[13][2] Belgium, Czechoslovakia, France, Italy, Norway (mentioned by several sources, however no Norwegian athletes appear in the result lists^[4][3]), Switzerland and the United Kingdom. The tournament was a huge promotion for women's sports.

Team	Nation	Participants
1	Belgium	?
2	Czechoslovakia	?
3	France	?
4	Italy	?
5	Norway	?
6	Switzerland	?
7	United Kingdom	?

The athletes competed^[4][3][5] in 11^[9] events:^[12] running (60 metres, 250 metres, 800 metres, 4 x 75 metres relay, 4 x 175 metres relay and hurdling 65 metres), high jump, long jump, javelin, shot put and Athletics pentathlon. The tournament also held exhibition events^[2] in basketball, cycling, gymnastics and rhythmic gymnastics.

The pentathlon event was the first^[15] recorded Women's pentathlon, the 5 events were 60 metres, 300 metres, high jump, javelin, and shot put (the throwing events were two-hand^[15]). Regular women's pentathlon was introduced at the 1934 Women's World Games in London

During the games there were also events held in water sports^[4][3] (among the first for women outside the Olympic Games) with swimming events,^[12] where teams from the Netherlands and Sweden also participated. Events were^[13][2] swimming 100 metres, 200 metres and 400 metres, relays and water polo.

The tournament was held partly at the "Stade Nautique du Port" at the Monaco harbour^[12] and partly at the "Tir aux Pigeons"^[14][13] in the gardens Les jardins du Casino of the Monte Carlo Casino.^[8][11][1]

Almost all gold medals^[9][4] went to athletes^[13][3] from France and the United Kingdom, medalists^[14][6] for each event:^[13][2][5]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
60-metre	Nora Callebout  United Kingdom	8,2 sec	Mary Lines  United Kingdom	?	Bozena Srámková  Czechoslovakia	?
250-metre	Mary Lines  United Kingdom	39,0 sec	Nelly Hicks  United Kingdom		Alice Beuns  France
800-metre	Suzanne Porte  France	2.37,6	Marcelle Neveu  France		Madeleine Dupont  France
4 x 75 m relay	Team FFFGS France  France Alice Gonnet Lucie Prost Paulette de Croze Alice Beuns	51,8 sec	Team England United Kingdom  United Kingdom Mary Lines Ivy Lowman Daisy Wright Nora Callebout		Team FSFSF France  France Germaine Delapierre Cécile Maugars Yvonne de Wynne Andrée Patureau
4 x 175 m relay	Team England United Kingdom  United Kingdom Nora Callebout Ivy Lowman Mary Lines Hornovsky		Team FFFGS France  France Geneviève Laloz Alice Gonnet Paulette de Croze Alice Beuns		Team FSFSF France  France Cécile Maugars Germaine Darreau Thérèse Brulé Thérèse Renaut
Hurdles	Daisy Wright  United Kingdom	11,4 sec	Hilda Hatt  United Kingdom		Alice Beuns  France
High jump	Madeleine Bracquemond  France shared Gold	1,37 m	Hilda Hatt  United Kingdom shared Gold	1,37 m	shared Frédérique Kussel  France Alice De Pauw  Belgium Ivy Lowman  United Kingdom	1,35 m
Long jump	Mary Lines  United Kingdom	4,66 m	Elise van Truyen  Belgium	4,52 m	Marie Jirásková  Czechoslovakia	4,47 m
Javelin, two-handed[nb]	Francesca Pianzola  Switzerland	39,77 m	Florence Birchenough  United Kingdom	38,71 m	Britte  France	35,85 m
Shot put, two-handed[nb] 3,628 kg	Violette Morris  France	17,77 m	Miloslava Havlickova  Czechoslovakia	14,95 m	Florence Hurren  United Kingdom	14,81 m
Pentathlon	Ivy Lowman  United Kingdom		Hilda Hatt  United Kingdom		Geneviève Laloz  France

• ^nb Each athlete in the shot put and javelin throw events threw using their right hand, then their left. Their final mark was the total of the best mark with their right-handed throw and the best mark with their left-handed throw.

Daisy Wright and Hilda Hatt also competed in hurdles, previous winner in hurdles Germaine Delapierre participated in the high jump event.

The basketboll tournament was won by Team Haguenau after a win in the final against Team England with 9–8.

The swimming events were held April 20–23, participants from Belgium, Denmark, France, Italy, Netherlands, Sweden and United Kingdom competed in 10^[4][3] events. During the competitions^[13][2] Sweden secured 4 victories, the Netherlands 3 victories, France won 2 events and United Kingdom won 1 event.

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100-metre freestyle, int	Aina Berg  Sweden		Carin Nilsson  Sweden		Germaine van Dievoet  Belgium
100-metre freestyle, regional	Mariette Protin  France		Bienna Pélégry  France		A Veglio  France
100-metre backstroke, int	Truus Klapwijk  Netherlands		D Hart  United Kingdom		Alice Harflinger  France
200-metre breaststroke, int	D Hart  United Kingdom		Elisa van den Bogaert  Belgium		Hjördis Töpel  Sweden
400-metre freestyle, int	Carin Nilsson  Sweden		Ernestine Lebrun  France		D Roux  United Kingdom
4 x 50 m relay	France Alice Harflinger Alice Stoffel Ernestine Lebrun Mariette Protin		Netherlands Truus Klapwijk I Brandt A Trejters M Borsennez		Belgium De Coniak Elisa van den Bogaert Germaine van Dievoet J Weiters
4 × 200 m relay	Sweden Margit Bratt Hjördis Töpel Carin Nilsson Aina Berg		Netherlands		United Kingdom
High diving springboard, 3 m	Truus Klapwijk  Netherlands		Eva Olliwier  Sweden		Henriette Delbort  France
High diving platform, 10 m	Eva Olliwier  Sweden		Hjördis Töpel  Sweden		Cecily O'Bryen  United Kingdom

The water polo tournament was won by Team Netherlands after a win in the final against Team England with 6–0.

A special commemorative medal was issued for the participants.^[16]

Later in 1922 the first Women's World Games were held in Paris, the 1923 Women's Olympiad were held at the same Monaco venue.^[11][10]

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• Participation medal