Backstroke Record Set
(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter —Copyright) BEZIERS (Franco). I The 13-year-old South African swimmer, Karen Muir, set a world record of 2min 27.1 sec for the women's 200 metres backstroke on Tuesday. Miss Muir’s time clipped three-tenths of a second off the record of 2:27.4 set by the American Miss K. Ferguson in Los Angeles in September, 1964. She now holds two world backstroke records, having clocked a world mark of lmin Bsec for 110 yards in Durban last March, to improve on her previous record of 1:08.3.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31123, 28 July 1966, Page 21
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87Backstroke Record Set Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31123, 28 July 1966, Page 21
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