1928 Great Britain–Germany–France women's athletics match

1928 Great Britain–Germany–France women's athletics match
Dates	14 August 1928
Host city	London, United Kingdom
Level	Senior
Type	Outdoor track and field
Events	9
Participation	3 nations

The 1928 Great Britain–Germany–France women's athletics match was an international women's athletics competition on 14 August 1928 in London, United Kingdom between United Kingdom, Germany and France.^[1][2][3]

The match took place two weeks after the 1928 Summer Olympics.

The competition was won by the United Kingdom with 50 points ahead of Germany with 41 points and France with 15 points.

Competition format

The competition consisted of 9 events: 100 metres, 800 metres, 4x 100 metres relay, high jump and discus throw. Two athletes per country could competed in the individual events. The overall classification is a nation's classification. The winner of the each received for the nation a certain amount of points. For the overall classication all points from each country are added together.

Results

100 yards

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time (s)
1	Daisy Ridgley	Great Britain	11.4
2	Leni Schmidt	Germany
3	Marguerite Radideau	France
4	Muriel Gunn	Great Britain
	Rose Drieling	Germany

200 metres

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time (s)
1	Daisy Ridgley	Great Britain	25.6
2	Ilse Drieling	Germany
3	Lucienne Velu	France
4	Annelies Gerhardt	Germany

800 metres

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time (min)
1	Ivy Barber	Great Britain	2:28.6
2	Lilian Styles	Great Britain
3	Marcelle Neveu	France
4	Elfriede Wever	Germany
	Käthe Martin	Germany

4 × 100 metres relay

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time (s)
1	Germany	Ilse Drieling Rose Drieling Annelies Gerhardt Leni Schmidt	50.0
2	Great Britain	Daisy Ridgley Fanny Rosenfeld Rose Thompson Myrtle Cook
3	France	Georgette Gagneux Lucienne Velu Lucienne Laudré Marguerite Radideau

High jump

Place	Athlete	Nation	Height (m)
1	Marjorie Clark	Great Britain	1.50
2	Eva von Bredow [de]	Germany	1.47
3	Hilda Hatt	Great Britain	1.44
	Anneliese Jacke	Germany

Long jump

Place	Athlete	Nation	Distance (m)
1	Muriel Gunn	Great Britain	5.43
2	Georgette Gagneux	France	5.35
3	Eva von Bredow	Germany	5.19
	Leni Schmidt	Germany

Shot put

Place	Athlete	Nation	Distance (m)
1	Grete Heublein	Germany	11.72
2	Mary Weston	Great Britain	10.25
3	Anneliese Jacke	Germany	09.78
4	Lucienne Velu	France

Discus throw

Place	Athlete	Nation	Distance (m)
1	Grete Heublein	Germany	35.80
2	Florence Birchenough	Great Britain	31.26
3	E. Bell	Great Britain	31.09
	Anneliese Jacke	Germany

Javelin throw

Place	Athlete	Nation	Distance (m)
1	Auguste Hargus [de]	Germany	36.56
2	Ethel Catherwood	Great Britain
3	Anneliese Jacke	Germany

Overall classification

Rank	Nation	Points
1	United Kingdom	50
2	Germany	41
3	France	15

References

1. Möwes, Detlef; Krüger, Julian (1992). 100 Jahre Deutsche Leichtathletik, Eine statistische Auswertung (in German). Selbstverlag Detlef Mewes.
2. K. Wilhelm Köster (1998). 100 Jahre deutsche Leichtathletik (1898–1998): von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart (in German). Hornberger Verlag.
3. Presseausschuß des Deutschen Leichtathletik-Verbandes (Hrsg.), Jahrbuch der Leichtathletik 1958 (in German). Berlin-Charlottenburg: Verlag Bartels & Wernitz. 1958. p. 187f.