1923 USA Outdoor Track And Field Championships
The 1923 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships women's competition were the first national track and field championships for Women's sports, women in the United States. The tournament was held on 29 September 1923 at Weequahic Park in Newark, New Jersey. Background After the initial Women's World Games in 1922 Women's World Games, 1922 in Paris and the three Women's Olympiads (1921 Women's Olympiad, 1922 Women's Olympiad and 1923 Women's World Games) in Monaco, interest in women's sports grew internationally. In 1922, the Women's Amateur Athletic Association (WAAA) was founded in the United Kingdom. The WAAA organised the first official British women's championships in track and field (1923 WAAA Championships, WAAA Championships) on 18 August 1923 at the Oxo Sports Ground in Downham, London, Downham outside London. In the United States, the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) was founded in 1888, and held its first national championship for women in the sport of swimming in 1916 ...
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Newark, New Jersey
Newark ( , ) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of New Jersey and the seat of Essex County and the second largest city within the New York metropolitan area.New Jersey County Map
New Jersey Department of State. Accessed July 10, 2017. The city had a population of 311,549 as of the , and was calculated at 307,220 by the Population Estimates Program for 2021, making it
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