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1926 Great Britain Women's World Games trials
1926 Great Britain Women's World Games trials
Dates	8 August 1926
Host city	London, United Kingdom
Venue	Battersea Park
Type	Outdoor
Records set	2 world records
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The 1926 Great Britain Women's World Games trials (officialy named Women's Amateur Athletic Association trials^[1]) was an track and field athletics meeting to select the British athletes for the 1926 Women's World Games in Gothemburg, Sweden. The competitions were hosted at the Battersea Park at Battersea in the London Borough of Wandsworth in London on 8 August 1926.^[2]

It was stated that Florence Birchenough broke the discus throw world record with a distance of 103 ft 4.75 in (31.515 metres).^[2] However, the discus throw world record was at the time already 34.15 m (112 ft 1⁄4 in), set by Polish Halina Konopacka on 23 May 1926.^[3]

A team of 19 female was selected to represent the Great Britain at the 1926 Women's World Games.

Results

The long jump, shot put and javelin events were possibly not contested, wile athletes were selected for these events for the 1926 Women's World Games.

Key:
Selected athletes for this event Athletes selected for another event Selected reserves

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
60 metres	Florence Haynes	8 sec	Rose Thompson	+50 cm	D. Carden	+1 chest
100 yards	Rose Thompson	12 sec	Florence Haynes	+1 chest	Daisy Ridgley	+1 m
100 yards hurdles	Hilda Hatt	15.2 sec	Peggy Batt	+1 m	Eileen Edwards	+2 m
1000 metres	Kathleen Harris	3:25.6	G. Thomas	+2 m	Violet Hinton	+4 m
High jump	Hilda Hatt & Barbara Holliday	4' 10"	—	—
Standing long jump	Florence Birchenough	7' 10.25"	Barbara Holliday		Peggy Batt
440 yards	Vera Palmer	1:01.4	Dorothy Proctor	+9 m	Easily
Discus throw	Florence Birchenough	103" 4.75' (WR)	Mary Weston	93" 7.75'	Doris Jeffries	91" 0.75"
660 yards relay (220, 110, 110, 220)	Manor Park Weldon P. Moeler L. Gamble Rose Thompson	1:17.2 (WR)	Middlesex Athletic Clubs Dorothy Proctor M. Wannop M. Beales Vera Palmer	1:17.8	—	—

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Junior event

During the meeting also a junior 100 yards event was contested. This event was won by E. Thompson in a time of 13 seconds, ahead of E. Chapman and L. Blount.

Selected athletes

After the trials a list was published with selected athletes for the different events. However not for all events athletes were selected at the time, including for the 4 × 100 yards relay event and the 1000 metres race walk. Later four more athlete were added to the national team.^[5]

Selected athletes named after the trials

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Name	Event
Florence Haynes	60 metres 100 yards 440 yards relay
Rose Thompson	60 metres 100 yards 440 yards relay
Eileen Edwards	250 metres 440 yards relay
Vera Palmer	250 metres
Edith Trickey	1000 metres
Kathleen Harris	1000 metres
Hilda Hatt	100 yards hurdles High jump
Edith White	100 yards hurdles
Barbara Holliday	High jump Standing long jump
Muriel Gunn	Long jump
Josephine Matthews	Long jump
Florence Birchenough	Standing long jump Discus throw Shot put
Louise Fawcett	Javelin throw Discus throw
Sophie Mary Eliott-Lynn	Javelin throw
Mary Weston	Shot put
Dorothy Scouler	440 yards relay