She "competed" alone in the 100m backstroke event for women in swimming, completing it in 2:03.6, which set a world record.

[12][13] The host country, France, dominated, winning sixteen of the seventeen events in athletics; the sole exception was the javelin throw, where Belgian Nicolas François came first ahead of Frenchman Raymond Code.

By contrast, the six swimming events were much more open; France won none, and the six gold medals were shared between the Netherlands, Italy and the United Kingdom (competing as "Great Britain").

[12] The Games were deemed a success, and a second edition was held four years later in Amsterdam, with 212 athletes from ten nations – including, this time, fourteen women.

[15] Seventeen track and field events were held, exclusively for men in the absence of any female competitors.

Athletes from seven countries (France, Belgium, Great Britain, Netherlands, Poland, Latvia, Romania) took part.

Dutchwoman Hendrika Nicoline Van der Heyden, the lone competitor in the women's 100m backstroke, set a world record time of 2:03.6.

The British team won the men's 4 × 100 m freestyle relay with a world record time of 7:45.8.

[12] Pierre Rincheval of France won the men's singles, while the doubles went to Owen Bevan Maxwell and H. Hyslop of Great Britain.

This remained the case until the fourth Games, in 1935 in London, when the United States became the first non-European country to compete.

Italy's lone representative, swimmer Roberto de Marchi, won gold in both the events he took part in, placing his country fourth on the medal table.