4. Women's World Games

The Japanese team (left to right): Inui Fumiko (relay), Idota Kiyoko (800 m), Hirashima Kiroko, Kuzuo Kohide (relay), Nakamura Katsuko, Watanabe Sumiko (relay; long jump), Yamamoto Sadako (javelin), Shimpo Masako (Javelin throw), Makino Yukiko (relay).

The 4th Women's World Games took place from August 7th to 11th, 1934 in London's White City Stadium . It was the last event of its kind organized by the Fédération Sportive Féminine Internationale (FSFI) before women were fully admitted to the Olympic Games.

Participating countries

A total of nineteen nations took part. There was a point evaluation, according to which the individual national teams, whose athletes had achieved one of the first five places, were evaluated:

1. German Empire, 95 (7 times first, 2 world records; 5 times second; 2 times third).
2. Poland, 33
3. England, 31
4. Canada, 22
5. Czechoslovakia, 18
6. South Africa, 14
7. Sweden, 11
8. Japan, 10
9. Austria, 9
10. Netherlands, 6
11. France, 2

Japanese team

Japan sent nine female athletes. The editor at Osaka Mainichi Dr. Kinoshita Tosaku , also director of the FSFI, led the team.

The trainers were Nambu Chūhei , also the sports editor of the said daily newspaper and at that time the world record holder in the long jump as well as the lecturer at the Ōsaka Shōgyō Daigaku ( 大阪 商業 大学 ) Nakazawa Yonetarō ( 中 沢 米 太郎 ), who carried the Japanese flag at the opening of the 1928 Olympics .

The team reached fourth place in relay and long jump, fifth and sixth place in javelin throw and sixth place over 800 meters.

Sports and winners

• 60-meter run: Stanisława Walasiewicz (Poland), 7.6 s
• 100-meter run: Käthe Krauss (German Empire), 11.9 s (new record on English soil)
• 200-meter run: Käthe Krauß (German Empire), 24.9 s (new record on English soil)
• 800 meter run: Zdeňka Koubková (Czechoslovakia) 2: 12.4 s (world record)
• 80 meter hurdles: Ruth Engelhard , 11.6 s (world record)
• 400-meter relay race: German Reich (Käthe Krauß, Margarete Kuhlmann , Marie Dollinger , Selma Grieme ), 48.6 s
• High jump (running up): Marjorie Clark (South Africa), 1.56 m
• Long jump: Traute Göppner (Danzig, German Reich team) 5.805 m
• Javelin throw: Lisa Gelius , 42,435 m
• Discus throw: Jadwiga Wajs (Poland), 43.795 m (world record)
• Pentathlon: Gisela Mauermayer , 337 points (world record)

literature

• Women's World Games; in Japan, Today and Tomorrow; Osaka 1934 (Osaka Mainichi), p. 87

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus, Nakazawa is the family name, Yonetarō the first name.