Athletics at the 1930 Women's World Games

The athletics competitions at the 1930 Women's World Games in Prague were held from 7 to 9 September 1930 at the Letná Stadium.

Athletics at the 1930 Women's World Games
Venue	Letná Stadium
Dates	6–8 September 1930
Nations	16
← 1926 1934 →

The athletes competed in 12 events:^[1][2] running (60 metres, 100 metres, 200 metres, 800 metres, 4 x 100 metres relay and hurdling 80 metres), high jump, long jump, discus throw, javelin, shot put and triathlon (100 metres, high jump and javelin). Several world records were set.^{[1][3][4][5][6]}

At some days there were 20000 spectators in the stadium.^[7]

Medal summary

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
60 m details	Stanisława Walasiewicz  Poland	7.7	Lisa Gelius  Germany	7.8	Kinue Hitomi  Japan	7.8
100 m details	Stanisława Walasiewicz  Poland	12.5	Tollien Schuurman  Netherlands	12.6	Lisa Gelius  Germany	12.6
200 m details	Stanisława Walasiewicz  Poland	25.7	Tollien Schuurman  Netherlands	25.8	Nellie Halstead  United Kingdom	26.0
800 m details	Gladys Lunn  United Kingdom	2:21.9	Marie Dollinger  Germany	2:22.0	Brita Lovén  Sweden	2:24.8
80 m hurdles details	Maj Jakobsson  Sweden	12.4	Gerda Pirch  Germany	12.7	Ursula Birkholz  Germany	12.7
4×100 m relay details	Germany Rosa Kellner Agathe Karrer [sv] Luise Holzer [sv] Lisa Gelius	49.9	United Kingdom Eileen Hiscock Ethel Scott Ivy Walker Daisy Ridgley	50.5	Poland Alina Hulanicka [sv] Maryla Freiwald Stanisława Walasiewicz Felicja Schabińska	50.8
High jump details	Inge Braumüller  Germany	1.57 m	Carolina Gisolf  Netherlands	1.57 m	Helma Notte  Germany	1.53 m
Long jump details	Kinue Hitomi  Japan	5.90 m	Muriel Gunn  United Kingdom	5.76 m	Selma Grieme  Germany	5.71 m
Shot put details	Grete Heublein  Germany	12.49 m	Gustel Hermann  Germany	12.12 m	Liesl Perkaus  Austria	11.48 m
Discus throw details	Halina Konopacka  Poland	36.80 m	Tilly Fleischer  Germany	35.82 m	Vittorina Vivenza  Italy	35.23 m
Javelin details	Liesel Schumann  Germany	42.32 m	Auguste Hargus [de]  Germany	40.99 m	Kinue Hitomi  Japan	37.01 m
Triathlon details	Ellen Braumüller  Germany	198 pts	Kinue Hitomi  Japan	194 pts	Ruth Svedberg  Sweden	175 pts

Points table

Place	Nation	Points
1	Germany	57
2	Poland	26
3	United Kingdom	19
4	Japan	13
5	Sweden	10
6	Netherlands	9
7	Italy	2
	Austria
8	Latvia	1
	France

Source^[8]

Related pages

• Athletics at the Olympics of Grace

References

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