# Alice Cast

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{{Short description|British sprinter}}
{{Infobox sportsperson
| name = Alice Cast
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| sport = [Running](/source/Running)
| event  = [100 meters](/source/100_meters), [200 meters](/source/200_meters)
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| birth_date ={{Birth date|mf=yes|1900|2|9}}<ref>{{cite web |title=Alice Cast |url=https://worldathletics.org/athletes/-/14862579 |publisher=World Athletics}}</ref>
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| height = 1.71 m
| weight = 62 kg<ref name="IAAFBook">Progression of IAAF World Records 2011 Edition, Editor Imre Matrahazi, IAAF Athletics, p. 544.</ref>
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{{MedalSport | Women's [Athletics](/source/Track_and_field_athletics)}}
{{MedalCompetition|[1921 Women's Olympiad](/source/1921_Women's_Olympiad)}}
{{MedalGold| [1921 Women's Olympiad](/source/1921_Women's_Olympiad) | 4x75 metres relay}}
{{MedalGold| [1921 Women's Olympiad](/source/1921_Women's_Olympiad) | 4x175 metres relay}}
{{MedalCompetition|[1922 Women's World Games](/source/1922_Women's_World_Games)}}
{{MedalSilver| [1922 Women's World Games](/source/1922_Women's_World_Games) | 300 metres}}
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'''Alice Maud Cast''' (later Elsey, born February 9, 1900)<ref name="IAAFBook"/> was a British [sprinter](/source/Track_and_field_athletics) who was the inaugural holder of the women's 200m world record.<ref>{{cite web |title=200m world record |url=https://worldathletics.org/disciplines/sprints/200-metres |publisher=World Athletics}}</ref>

== Career ==

Cast achieved the [inaugural women's world record for 200m](/source/Women's_200_metres_world_record_progression) on 20 August 1922 of 27.8 s.

Cast also won medals in the [1921 Women's Olympiad](/source/1921_Women's_Olympiad) and the [1922 Women's World Games](/source/1922_Women's_World_Games).

Cast personally or as a member of a team broke the following world records:<ref name="IAAFBook"/>
* 27 4/5s, 28.0s and 35.8s for 200m/220y/250 m in a 300m race in Paris on 20 August 1922.
* 51 4/5s for 4x100m/4x110y in Paris on 30 October 1921.
* 1:56 4/5 minutes for 4x200m/220y in London on 16 July 1921.
* 1:53.0 minutes for 4x200m/220y in Paris on 30 October 1921.
* 1:50 4/5 minutes for 4x200m/220y in London on 10 June 1922.
Note: only the first and fourth items on the list were officially ratified by the [IAAF](/source/IAAF).<ref name="IAAFBook"/><ref>{{cite web |title=BRITISH WORLD RECORD BREAKERS |url=http://www.gbrathletics.com/bwr.htm |publisher=www.gbrathletics.com |access-date=13 April 2025}}</ref>

In addition, Cast was third twice at the [WAAA Championships](/source/Amateur_Athletic_Association_of_England) (widely regarded as the de facto British national championships) at 440 yards in 1922 and 1924.<ref>{{cite web |title=WAAA and National Championships Medallists - 440 yards and 400 metres |url=https://nuts.org.uk/Champs/AAA/WAAA400.htm |publisher=National Union of Track Statisticians |access-date=15 April 2025}}</ref>

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Category:1900 births
Category:Olympic women sprinters
Category:British women sprinters
Category:Women's World Games medalists
Category:20th-century English sportswomen
Category:Year of death missing

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