Women's World Games 5th was cancelled as women participated in the 1938 European Athletics Championships. Women's World Games The Women's World Games were the first international women's sports events in track and field. The games were held four times between 1922 and 1934. They were established by Alice Milliat and the Fédération Sportive Féminine Internationale (FSFI) to compensate for the lack of women's sports at the Olympic Games. The games were an important step towards women's equality in sports. A forerunner tournament was held in Monte Carlo in March 1921. Women were allowed to take part in the Olympic games since 1900 (II
Participation of women in the Olympics reinstated until 1960. Halina Konopacka of Poland became the first female Olympic champion in athletics after winning the discus throw. At the gymnastics competition, the host Dutch team won the first gold medal for women in the sport. Tennis was removed from the program. No new events were added or removed for the 1932 Winter Games held in Lake Placid. For the Summer Games of the same year, the javelin throw was added and gymnastics was removed. At the 1936 Winter Games in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, women competed in the alpine skiing combined event for the first time with German Christl Cranz