Hancox To Attempt Channel Swim
fNew Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, May 30. The Wellington distance swimmer, K. Hancox, had every chance of breaking the record for the English Channel swim, Miss Mary Margaret Revell, said tonight.
Miss Revell said an American had arranged sponsorship for Hancox to attempt the Channel swim this year. She said Hancox had as great potential as a swimmer as any international distance men she had met. He already held the record for the Cook Strait swim. Miss Revell may make the swim with Hancox to attempt to break the women’s record, set up by Greta Anderson, of 11 hours 1 minute. However, she may be needed to direct the documentary film of Hancox’s attempt. The channel record of 10 hours 33 minutes was set by Helge Jensen, a Dane. The swimmers will leave in two weeks, calling at Sydney Miss Revell will swim from Manley to Sydney, seven miles, without a shark cage. She may be accompanied by Hancox.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30764, 31 May 1965, Page 3
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