Article by Tony Bijkerk about the Women’s Water Polo exhibition
match held during the Antwerp 1920 Olympic Games : At the first page of the
Official Yearly Report from the Netherlands Swimming Association for the period
1920-21, it is noted: “With great
pleasure we may refer in this report, which has to be short even on this
particular point, to the Water Polo demonstration match, played in the swimming
week of the Olympic Games and which was initiated by the ‘Hollandsche Dames
Zwemclub’ (‘Dutch Ladies’ Swimming Club’) and played by some 14-some ladies
from Amsterdam and Rotterdam. We are quite certain, that this exhibition has
shown a great propaganda for women water polo and we very much hope, that the
International Olympic Committee will honor the request of the Netherlands
Swimming Association to include women’s water polo in the future program of the
Olympic Games.
Source: Citius, Altius, Fortius, Vol 2(2), article by
Tony Bijkerk.
