The games were attended by 200 participants from 19 nations[1][5] (including now dissolved nations):[7] Austria, Belgium, Canada, Czechoslovakia, France, Germany, Great Britain, Holland, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Palestine, Poland, Rhodesia, South Africa, Sweden, United States, and Yugoslavia.

[7] Another source names Jadwiga Wajs as J Wajsowna, and lists the High Jump winner as M Clark of South Africa.

It further notes that: World records were set in the 800m, 80m hurdles, shot, discus, and pentathlon; British records in the 100m, 200m, and javelin; Krauß [as 'Krauss'] was 2nd (not 3rd) in the discus; that the pentathlon consisted of the 100m, high and long jumps, shot put and javelin; and the home competitors' comparatively poor performances were attributable to them all having competed in the Empire Games earlier that same week.

Also from this same source, it was stated that the Women's World Games incorporated two further championship competitions: Hazena a fast-moving variant of handball, popular in central Europe, in which Yugoslavia beat Czecho-Slovakia (sic) by 6 goals to 4.

The absence of the USA and Yugoslavia from the points table supports the assertion that these (and the untraced football competition) were demonstration events only.