1924 France–Czechoslovakia women's athletics match

1924 France–Czechoslovakia women's athletics match
Dates	14 September
Host city	Paris, France
Venue	Stade Pershing
Stade Pershing pictured in 1919
Level	Senior
Type	Outdoor track and field
Events	9 (2 more outside competition)
Participation	2 (1 more outside competition) nations
Records set	1 World Record (2 more outside competition) + 2 other national records

The 1924 France–Czechoslovakia women's athletics match was an international women's athletics match where a national team of female French athletes competed against a national team of Czechosolvak athletes. It took place on 14 September 1924 at Stade Pershing in Paris, France.

During the competition two world records were broken. The competition was won by France with 56 points ahead of Czechoslovakia with 41 points.

Two Belgian women took part in a few events outside competition and a few international events were held outside the country match.

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. The event was held two years after the 1922 Women's World Games that took place in Paris.

Competition

200 metres

Place	Athlete	Time	Points	Note
1	Marguerite Radideau (FRA)	26.4 sec	5	NR
2	Marie Mejzlíková I (TCH)	27.4 sec	3
3	Andree Darreau (FRA)		2
4	Marie Kofránková (TCH)		1

50 metres

Place	Athlete	Time	Points	Note
1	Marguerite Radideau (FRA)	10.2 sec	5	NR
2	Marie Mejzlíková II (TCH)		3
3	Marie Kofránková (TCH)		2
4	Thérèse Laloz (FRA)		1

83 metres hurdles

Place	Athlete	Time	Points	Note
1	Geneviève Laloz (FRA)	14.2 sec	5	NR
-	Henriette Vandaelen (BEL)		-	outside of competition
2	Edith Alauze (FRA)		3
3	Miloslava Havlíčková (TCH)		2
4	Ludmila Vencová (TCH)		1

High jump

Place	Athlete	Height	Points	Note
1	Marguerite Patouillet (FRA)	1.40 m	5
	Evelyne Cloupet (FRA)	1.40 m	5
-	Henriette Vandaelen (BEL)	1.35 m	-	outside of competition
3	Věra Galusková (TCH)	1.30 m	2
	Miloslava Havlíčková (TCH)	1.30 m	1

Shot put

The score was the total of a throw with the right arm and with the left arm.

Place	Athlete	Right arm	Left arm	Total	Points	Note
1	Violette Morris (FRA)	10.835 m	9.68 m	20.515 m	5
2	Ludmila Vencová (TCH)	10.045 m	8.705 m	18.75 m	3
3	Miloslava Havlíčková or Marie Mejzlíková I (TCH)	9.66 m	8.43 m	18.09 m	2
4	Lucienne Velu (FRA)	8.675 m	7.51 m	16.185 m	1

Javelin throw

The score was the total of a throw with the right arm and with the left arm.

Place	Athlete	Right arm	Left arm	Distance	Points	Note
1	Kamila Olmerova (TCH)			47.02 m	5
2	Marie Janderová (TCH)	25.69 m	18.28 m	43.97 m	3
3	Paulette Puisais (FRA)	20.61 m	20.22 m	40.83 m	2
4	Louise Ausset (FRA)	23.20 m	15.90 m	39.108 m	1

Long jump

Place	Athlete	Distance	Points	Note
1	Marie Mejzlíková II (TCH)	5.09 m	5
2	Marguerite Patouillet (FRA)	4.77 m	3
3	Marie Mejzlíková I (TCH)	4.74 m	2
-	Elise Van Truyen (BEL)	4.72 m	-	outside competition
4	Raymond (FRA)	4.71 m	1

Discus throw

Place	Athlete	Distance	Points	Note
1	Lucienne Velu (FRA)	29.44 m	5	WR
2	Violette Morris (FRA)	27.90 m or 28.90 m	3
3	Vítová (TCH)	26.36 m	2
4	Marie Mejzlíková I (TCH)	25.03 m	1

4 x 100 metres relay

4x 100 metres relay

Place	Team	Time	Points
1	France Marguerite Radideau Andree Darreau Germaine Darreau Thérèse Laloz	53.6 sec.
2	Czechoslovakia ? ? ? ?	+ 15 m

Overall classification

Rank	Athlete	Points
1	France	56
2	Czechoslovakia	41

Events outside country match

A few more events were held outside the country match. During these events two world records were broken. Resel broke the world record in the 880 yards race walk in a time of 4 minutes and 13 seconds, beating the former world record of 4 minutes and 17.4 seconds. Edith Alauze broke the 120 yards hurdles world record with a time of 17.8 seconds.

880 yards race walk

Place	Athlete	Time	Note
1	Albertine Regel (FRA)	4:13.0	WR

120 yards hurdles

Place	Athlete	Time	Note
1	Edith Alauze (FRA)	17.8 s	WR
2	Geneviève Laloz (FRA)
3	Henriette Vandaelen (BEL)	19.0 s
4	Marguerite Laloz (FRA)