1923 Twente–Westphalia athletics competition

The 1923 Twente–Westphalia athletics competition was an international athletics competition between athletes of Westphalia, Germany and Twente, the Netherlands and one of the earliest international female athletics competition. The competition was held at the G.J. van Heekpark in Enschede, the Netherlands on 8 July 1923. The competition included in total 15 events: 11 events for men and 4 events for women.

1923 Twente–Westphalia athletics competition
Dates	8 July 1923
Host city	Enschede, the Netherlands
Venue	G.J. van Heekpark
Level	Senior
Type	Outdoor track and field
Events	15 (men: 11, women: 4)
Participation	2 nations
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The competition was the first Twente–Westphalia athletics competition. It is probably the second international women's athletics tournament in the Netherlands after the 1922 Pro Patria women's international athletics competition a year earlier.

The competition was won by the Westphalia with 78 points versus Twente with 66 points.

Requests were made to include attempts to break Dutch records. This was approved by the chairman of the Dutch athletics association who was present. Harke (Olympia-Hengelo) broke the national record in the women's long jump with a distance of with 4.67 metres, beating the previous record of 4.55 from Annie van de Blankevoort. Franken (Hercules Hebe-Enschede) broke the women's 80 metres record with a time of with 10.5 seconds, beating the previous record of 10.7 seconds also from Annie van de Blankevoort.

Preparations

In the four weeks ahead of the competition, the selection group of Twente trained with national athletics trainer Hjertberg.

Competition format

In each individual event two athletes of each team competed. In the relay event the two teams competed against each other. The winner of each event received 4 points, with 3, 2 and 1 point for the other positions. For the overall classication all points from each teams are added together.

Competition

According to the newspapers the competition were held in "tropical heat".

Men's

Men's 100 m

Place	Athlete	Time
1	Ahrens (GER)	10.9"
2	Roelofsen (NED)	11.0"
3	Fliege (GER)	11.3"
4	Scheffer (NED)	11.4"

Men's 400 m

Place	Athlete	Time
1	Schröer (GER)	53.2
2	J. L. Klop (NED)	53.3
3	Kirchhoff (GER)	59.9
4	Teurelink (NED)	63.2

Men's 800 m

Place	Athlete	Time
1	Scharmann (GER)	2' 1.7"
2	Klop (NED)	2' 6.3"
3	Aalders (NED)	2' 22.6"
3	Aalders (NED)	2' 22.6"

Men's 1500 metres

Place	Athlete	Time
1	Schneider (GER)	4' 28.2"
2	Redicker (GER)	4' 33.2"
3	van Zuiden (NED)	4' 38.2"
4	Wagelaar (NED)	4' 42.2"

Men's 110 metres hurdles

Place	Athlete	Time
1	Zwijnenberg (NED)	17.5"
2	Kirchhoff (GER)	17.8"
3	Kuiper (NED)	20.4"
4	Moseeker (GER)

Men's 4x 100 metres relay

Place	Team	Time
1	Westphalia	44"
2	Twente	45.7"

Men's long jump

Place	Athlete	Height
1	Roelofsen (NED)	6.11 m.
2	A. Horst (NED)	6.08 m.
3	Faber (GER)	5.68 m.
4	Kunze (GER)	5.48 m.

Men's high jump

Place	Athlete	Height
1	Prelle (GER)	1.75 m.
2	Vowinkel (NED)	1.65 m.
3	Heuser (GER)	1.60 m.
4	Scheffer (NED)	1.55 m.

Men's discus throw

Place	Athlete	Distance
1	Hofmeister (GER)	37.80 m.
2	Wendt (GER)	35.49 m.
3	Zwijnenberg (NED)	28.50 m.
4	Koers (NED)	27.69 m.

Men's javelin throw

Place	Athlete	Distance
1	Hoffmeister (GER)	45.35 m.
2	Zwijnenberg (GER)	44.11 m.
3	Prelle (NED)	43.87 m.
4	Roelofs (NED)	43.40 m.

Men's pole vault

Place	Athlete	Height
1	ter Horst (NED)	3.35 m.
2	Heuser (GER)	3.30 m.
3	de Graaf (NED)	3.10 m.
4	Kunze (GER)	2.90 m.

Women's

Women's 80 m

Place	Athlete	Time
1	Anna Pieper (GER)	10.2"
2	R. Franken (NED)	10.4"
3	G. Harke (NED)	10.6"
4	Schmäing (GER)	11.6"

Women's long jump

Place	Athlete	Distance
1	Anna Pieper (GER)	4.86 m.
2	G. Harke (NED)	4.65 m.
3	Jansen (NED)	4.35 m.
4	Änne Kuhlmann (GER)	4.19 m.

Women's high jump

Place	Athlete	Height
1	Änne Kuhlmann (GER)	1.35 m.
2	S. Joosten (NED)	1.30 m.
3	Hofman (NED)	1.30 m.
4	Schmäing (GER)	1.30 m.

Women's javelin throw

Place	Athlete	Distance
1	Erna Pröschold (GER)	33.60 m.
2	Schöing (GER)	25.07 m.
3	G. Harke (NED)	23.77 m.
4	Westenbrink (NED)	23.53 m.

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Overall classification

Rank	Athlete	Points
1	Westphalia	78
2	Twente	66

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Related pages

• 1922 Pro Patria women's international athletics competition