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Athletics At The 1928 Summer Olympics – Women's 4 × 100 Metres Relay
The women's 4 × 100 metres relay event at the 1928 Olympic Games took place between August 4 & August 5. Results Heats Heat 1 Key: Q = Qualified, WR = World record Heat 2 Key: Q = Qualified Final Key: WR = World record References {{DEFAULTSORT:Athletics At The 1928 Summer Olympics - Women's 4 X 100 Metres Relay Women's 4x100 metre relay Relay foot races at the Olympics 4 × 100 metres relay 1928 in women's athletics Women's events at the 1928 Summer Olympics ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olympic Stadium (Amsterdam)
The Olympic Stadium (Dutch: ''Olympisch Stadion'', ) is a sporting venue which was used as the main stadium for the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam. The venue is currently used mostly for athletics, other sports events and concerts. When completed, the stadium had a capacity of 31,600. Following the completion of the rival De Kuip stadium in Rotterdam in 1937, the Amsterdam authorities increased the capacity of the Olympic Stadium to 64,000 by adding a second ring to the stadium. In 1987 the stadium was listed as a national monument. AFC Ajax used the Olympic Stadium for international games until 1996, when the Amsterdam Arena, since 2018 renamed Johan Cruyff Arena, was completed. Renovation started in 1996, and the stadium was refurbished into the original construction of 1928. The second ring of 1937 was removed, reducing capacity to 22,288, and the stadium was made suitable for track and field competitions again. Since 2005, the stadium is home to a sports museum, the Oly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeanette Grooss
Nettie Grooss (2 August 1905 – 11 April 1977) was a Dutch sprinter. She competed in the women's 100 metres at the 1928 Summer Olympics The 1928 Summer Olympics ( nl, Olympische Zomerspelen 1928), officially known as the Games of the IX Olympiad ( nl, Spelen van de IXe Olympiade) and commonly known as Amsterdam 1928, was an international multi-sport event that was celebrated from .... References External links * 1905 births 1977 deaths Athletes (track and field) at the 1928 Summer Olympics Dutch female sprinters Olympic athletes for the Netherlands Sportspeople from The Hague Athletes from South Holland Olympic female sprinters 20th-century Dutch women {{Netherlands-athletics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vittorina Vivenza
Vittorina Vivenza (6 June 1912 in Villalba – 3 April 2007 in Aosta) was an Italian versatile athlete. Achievements National titles Vittorina Vivenza has won six times the national championship. *1 win in Long jump (1927) *2 wins in Standing long jump (1926, 1930) *3 wins in Discus throw The discus throw (), also known as disc throw, is a track and field event in which an athlete throws a heavy disk (mathematics), disc—called a discus—in an attempt to mark a farther distance than their competitors. It is an classical antiqui ... (1928, 1929, 1930) See also * Italy national relay team References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Vivenza, Vittorina 1912 births 2007 deaths People from Villalba, Sicily Italian female sprinters Italian female long jumpers Italian female shot putters Italian female discus throwers Athletes (track and field) at the 1928 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for Italy Women's World Games medalists Sportspeople from the Pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Derna Polazzo
Derna Polazzo (born 27 March 1912, date of death unknown) was an Italian sprinter and long jumper. She was born in Trieste. Achievements National titles Derna Polazzo twice won the individual national championship. *1 win in 80 metres (1929) *1 win in Long jump The long jump is a track and field event in which athletes combine speed, strength and agility in an attempt to leap as far as possible from a takeoff point. Along with the triple jump, the two events that measure jumping for distance as a gr ... (1928) See also * Italy national relay team References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Polazzo, Derna 1912 births Year of death missing Italian female sprinters Italian female long jumpers Athletes (track and field) at the 1928 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes of Italy Sportspeople from Trieste People from Austrian Littoral Italian Austro-Hungarians ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giannina Marchini
Giannina Marchini (18 January 1906 – 9 September 1976) was an Italian sprinter and middle distance runner. He was born in Florence. Achievements National titles Marchini won the individual national championship twice. *1 win in 400 metres (1928) *1 win in Cross country running Cross country running is a sport in which teams and individuals run a race on open-air courses over natural terrain such as dirt or grass. The course, typically long, may include surfaces of grass and earth, pass through woodlands and open coun ... (1929) See also * Italy national relay team References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Marchini, Giannina 1906 births 1976 deaths Sportspeople from Florence Italian female sprinters Italian female middle-distance runners Athletes (track and field) at the 1928 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for Italy Olympic female sprinters ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luigia Bonfanti
Luigia Bonfanti (born 1906, date of death unknown) was an Italian sprinter and long jumper. She was born in Milan. Biography Bonfanti participated at one edition of the Summer Olympics (1928), she has 2 caps in national team from 1927 to 1928. Achievements National titles Bonfanti won the individual national championship four times. *1 win in 75 metres (1926) *1 win in 80 metres (1925) *1 win in 100 metres (1927) *1 win in Long jump The long jump is a track and field event in which athletes combine speed, strength and agility in an attempt to leap as far as possible from a takeoff point. Along with the triple jump, the two events that measure jumping for distance as a gr ... (1926) See also * Italian record progression women's long jump * Italy national relay team References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Bonfanti, Luigia 1906 births Year of death missing Athletes from Milan Italian female sprinters Italian female long jumpers Athletes (track and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruth Svedberg
Ruth Augusta Svedberg (14 April 1903 – 27 December 2002) was a Swedish track and field athlete. She competed at the 1928 Summer Olympics in the 100 m, 4 × 100 m relay and discus throw events and won a bronze medal in the discus, failing to reach the finals in sprint events. Two years later she won the bronze medal in the triathlon at the third Women's World Games. Svedberg held national records in the discus throw, shot put and triathlon and won the national championships in the long jump (1933), shot put (1933 and 1937), discus (1927, 1929–30, 1932–33 and 1949), javelin throw (1929, 1931 and 1933), triathlon (1929–31, 1933, 1937 and 1938), and in the 4×80 m (1939–41) and 4 × 100 m sprint relays (1943–45 and 1947). At her last national championships, aged 46, she won the discus throw event with her best-ever throw of 38.98 m. Three years earlier she set her personal best in the shot put while placing second at the national championships. Svedberg was a physiother ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emy Pettersson
Emy Pettersson (22 November 1908 – 8 May 1996) was a Swedish sprinter. She competed in the women's 4 × 100 metres relay and the 800 meters at the 1928 Summer Olympics The 1928 Summer Olympics ( nl, Olympische Zomerspelen 1928), officially known as the Games of the IX Olympiad ( nl, Spelen van de IXe Olympiade) and commonly known as Amsterdam 1928, was an international multi-sport event that was celebrated from ... and was eliminated in the preliminary heats in both events. References External links * 1908 births 1996 deaths Athletes (track and field) at the 1928 Summer Olympics Swedish female sprinters Swedish female middle-distance runners Olympic athletes of Sweden Place of birth missing Olympic female sprinters {{Sweden-athletics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inga Gentzel
Inga Kristina Gentzel (later ''Dahlgren'', 24 April 1908 – 1 January 1991) was a Swedish runner, who won a bronze medal in the 800 m at the 1928 Summer Olympics. Shortly before the Olympics she set a new world record in this event, which was broken two weeks later, but remained a national record until 1943. Gentzel won the silver medal in the 1000 m at the 1926 Women's World Games. Gentzel represented Djurgårdens IF. She held Swedish titles in the 200 m in 1929 and in the 800 m in 1928–31. She worked as a piano teacher in Nyköping Nyköping () is a Urban areas in Sweden, locality and the seat of Nyköping Municipality, Södermanland County, Sweden with 32,759 inhabitants as of 2017. The city is also the capital of Södermanland County. Including Arnö, the locality on the ... and often appeared on the Swedish radio as a member of the vocal group Trio Rita, together with Ulla Castegren and Anna-Lisa Cronström. She was a niece of the actor Ludde Gentzel. References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maud Sundberg
Maud Elisabeth Sundberg (22 December 1911 – 30 November 2010) was a Swedish sprint runner. She competed at the 1928 Olympics in the 100 m and 4 × 100 m events, but failed to reach the finals. Sundberg won national titles in the 60 m (1927), 80 m hurdles (1931–34, 1936–39 and 1941–42) and 4×80 m relay (1930–33 and 1936–38), and held national records over 80 m, 100 m and 80 m hurdles. She married as Maud Nörklit and was the mother-in-law of Benny Andersson, a member of the rock group ABBA ABBA ( , , formerly named Björn & Benny, Agnetha & Anni-Frid or Björn & Benny, Agnetha & Frida) are a Swedish supergroup formed in Stockholm in 1972 by Agnetha Fältskog, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, and Anni-Frid Lyngstad. The group's .... At the time of her death she was the oldest Swedish Olympian. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Sundberg, Maud 1911 births 2010 deaths Athletes (track and field) at the 1928 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for Sweden Swedish fem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucienne Velu
Lucienne Velu-Chapillon, Mrs Odoul (born Lucienne Antoinette Velu; 28 January 1902 – 12 June 1998) was a French athlete and basketball player. She was inducted into the French Basketball Hall of Fame, in 2011. She was born Paris and died in Quincy-sous-Senart. Biography Athletics Velu held the world record in the discus throw in September 1924 at Paris with a throw of 30.225 m, and she was 14 times champion of France for 7 national records (her last record stood for 22 years). Her rivals were two other Frenchwomen, Lucie Petit-Diagre, a double world record holder in the summer of 1924, with throws of 27.70 m and 28.325 m, and Yvonne Tembouret, who was the world record holder in September 1923 at Paris with a throw of 27.39 m. In the shot put Velu was 8 times champion of France; her rival was Violette Morris. She was also the holder of three national records for 10 years and participated in the Olympic Games 1924, 1928 and 1936. She participated in the 1928 Olymp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marguerite Radideau
Marguerite Radideau (5 March 1907 – 14 March 1978) was a French sprinter. She competed in 60–250 m events at the 1926 Women's World Games and won two gold, one silver and one bronze medals. In 1924 she competed at the 1924 Women's Olympiad winning the bronze medal in running 100 yards. She participated in the 1928 Olympic Games at Amsterdam, she placed fourth in the 4 x 100 metres relay (alongside Yolande Plancke, Georgette Gagneux and Lucienne Velu Lucienne Velu-Chapillon, Mrs Odoul (born Lucienne Antoinette Velu; 28 January 1902 – 12 June 1998) was a French athlete and basketball player. She was inducted into the French Basketball Hall of Fame, in 2011. She was born Paris and died ...). and failed to reach the final of the 100 m event. References 1907 births 1978 deaths French female sprinters Olympic athletes for France Athletes (track and field) at the 1928 Summer Olympics Athletes from Paris Women's World Games medalists 20th-century French wom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
