MORE RECORDS TO MISS GOULD
Unofficial Breaking Of World Figure
(New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND, March 19.
With a remarkable burst of sustained power over the last 70 yards. Miss Phillipa Gould, the 17-year-old Auckland swimmer, today broke the New Zealand 200 metres and 220 yards backstroke records by 4.3 sec and set an unofficial world record. Miss Gould’s time was 2min 35.1 sec, compared with the national mark of 2min 39.45ec and the world record of 2min 38.5 sec.
Her time cannot be recognised as a world mark as it was set in a pool of 33 1-3 yards, instead of the regulation 50 metres or 55 yards.
Miss Tessa Staveley, in swimming 110 yards, set a national intermediate mark for the 100 yards butterfly z (68.1 sec instead of 68.5 sec) and New Zealand intermediate and senior records for the 110 yards (75.35ec instead of her senior mark of 75.45ec).
Miss H. Kerr took 3.9 sec off the Auckland girls’ under 12 50 yards butterfly record. Her time of 38.8 sec replaces Miss W. Sheath’s mark of 42.75ec.
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28540, 20 March 1958, Page 12
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