1923 International Universities Championships

The 1923 International Universities Championships was organised by the Union Nationale des Étudiants de France (UNEF) and held in Paris, France. Held from 3–6 May, ten nations were present in the men's only programme,^[1] which included athletics (18 events) and fencing (4 events).

I International Universities Championships

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Nations	12
Events	2 sports
Opening	May 3, 1923
Closing	May 6, 1923
Opened by	Alexandre Millerand
Main venue	Stade de Colombes

Athletics medal summary

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Charles Paddock (USA)	10.4	Bohus Fleischer (TCH)	11.4e	Fournier (FRA)[2]	Not known
200 metres	Charles Paddock (USA)	21.0	Bohus Fleischer (TCH)	22.4e	Carlo Mereu (ITA)	Not known
400 metres	Adriaan Paulen (NED)	51.2	Wilbeaux (BEL)[2]	Not known	Gossé (FRA)[2]	Not known
800 metres	Paul Martin (SUI)	1:57.0	Adriaan Paulen (NED)	1:57.2e	Pierre Villeneuve (FRA)	2:00.5e
1500 metres	Suby (FRA)[2]	4:20.8	René Chatelain (FRA)	Not known	Francis Bordes (FRA)	Not known
5000 metres	R.A.S. Castell (ENG)	16:28.0	Pippo Orio (ITA)	16:28.8e	Binder (FRA)[2]	Not known
110 m hurdles	Otto van Rappart (NED)	16.0	Gabriel Sempé (FRA)	16.1e	Adolfo Contoli (ITA)	Not known
400 m hurdles	René Resal (FRA)	59.4	Vigoni (BEL)[2]	Not known	Maurice Frichoux (FRA)	Not known
4 × 100 m relay	Netherlands Harry van Rappard Oscar van Rappard Wim Venlet Chris Bovens	44.8	Italy	44.8	Belgium Émile Vercken Fred Zinner Roels Wilbeaux	45.0e
4 × 400 m relay	France Gossé Pierre Villeneuve Le Floch René Resal	3:32.0	Belgium	3:32.0	Italy	Not known
1000 m medley relay	Netherlands Adriaan Paulen Harry van Rappard Wim Venlet Chris Bovens	2:05.2	Italy	2:05.2	Belgium	Not known
High jump	Louis Zwahlen (FRA)	1.79	Gabriel Sempé (FRA)  Ettore Uicich (ITA)	1.75	Not awarded
Pole vault	Henry Petersen (DEN)	3.70	Adolfo Contoli (ITA)  Jan Milde (TCH)	3.40	Not awarded
Long jump	Gabriel Sempé (FRA)	7.06	Georges Krotoff (FRA)	6.59	Alois Sobotka (TCH)	6.54
Shot put	Jan Milde (TCH)[3]	12.84	Dušan Ivkovic (TCH)[4]	12.22	Édouard Duhour (FRA)	11.73
Discus throw	Jan Milde (TCH)[3]	35.92	Antonín Svoboda (TCH)	35.88	Gabriel Sempé (FRA)	33.46
Javelin throw	Carlo Clemente (ITA)	53.80	Marco Manuel Gismondi (ITA)	47.84	Václav Chmelík (TCH)	47.26
Pentathlon	Adolfo Contoli (ITA)	09.00	Antonín Svoboda (TCH)	12.00	Fred Zinner (BEL)	14.00

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	France (FRA)	5	4	8	17
2	Italy (ITA)	2	5	4	11
3	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	2	5	2	9
4	Netherlands (NED)	2	1	0	3
5	United States (USA)	2	0	0	2
6	Denmark (DEN)	1	0	0	1
	England (ENG)	1	0	0	1
	Switzerland (SUI)	1	0	0	1
9	Belgium (BEL)	0	3	3	6
Totals (9 entries)		16	18	17	51

Participating nations

•  Belgium
•  Czechoslovakia
•  Denmark
•  Estonia
•  France
•  Italy
•  Great Britain
•  Netherlands
•  Lithuania
•  Poland
•  Switzerland
•  United States