What is Reiniera Cornax?
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2022}} {{Infobox sportsperson |name = Reiniera Cornax |fullname = Johanna Reiniera Gast-Cornax |image = |image_size = |caption = |birth_date = {{birth date|df=y|1900|10|20}} |birth_place = [[Rotterdam]], Netherlands |death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|2003|9|22|1900|10|20}} |death_place = [[Hengelo]], Netherlands |height = |weight = |residence = [[Rotterdam]], Netherlands |sport = [[Track and field athletics]] |club = G. S. V. |alma_mater = |show-medals = yes |medaltemplates = }} '''Johanna Reiniera Gast-Cornax''' in sources commonly reffered to as '''R. Cornax''' (20 October 1900 — 22 September 2003) was a Dutch track and field athlete representing athletics club [[G.S.V.]]. She was active between 1921 and 1924.<ref name=1922-7 /><ref>[https://www.openarch.nl/srt:034f72a3-055c-1c3b-9a72-520827ca5270 Huwelijk op 17 augustus 1922 te Rotterdam], openarch.nl</ref> She also played [[korfball]] with Rozenburg. ==Career== ===Athletics=== Cornax was a main Dutch athlete in the early 1920s when athletics became an established sport for women. The first women events at the Dutch national championships were at the [[1921 Dutch Athletics Championships]]. With her club G.S.V. she finished second in the first ever women’s Dutch championships event, the women’s 4x 100 metres relay.<ref name=1921-5 /> At the [[1922 Dutch Athletics Championships]] she won the bronze medal in the 80 metres event, behind Van den Blankenvoort and [[A. de Bock]].<ref name=1922-1 /> Later in 1922, on 27 August, the first Dutch international women’s 100 metres event was held at the [[1922 Pro Patria women's international athletics competition]]. Cornax was one of the four Dutch athletes. She was in the 100 metres the best Dutch woman beating [[Annie van de Blankevoort]] and finished second behind the German [[Margarete Furchheim]]. In the relay event she won together with [[Annie van de Blankevoort]], [[A. de Bock]] and [[C. B