Record Strait swim by girl
A 15-year-old Christchurch swimmer, Elizabeth Horner, became the first woman to swim from the North Island to the South Island mainland yesterday. Rough seas and a strong northerly wind forced her to swim about 11km further than the normal cross-Cook Strait distance, but she still broke the women’s record for the inter-island swim. Miss Horner reached Fisherman’s Bay, below Tory Channel, 11 hours and 34 minutes after leaving from
h Terewhiti Point. Her mother, Mrs Elsie Horner, said last o evening that all previous! 1 swimmers had landed at l 1 Arapawa Island, 20km from! the North island. Herdaugh*! J ; ter swam 31.3 km. ! i • “It was a hell of a swim,’* r r said Mrs Horner, but her c daughter did not have any 1 thoughts of giving up at any 1 stage. In March, Miss Homer 1 became the youngest con- ’ queror of Cook Strait, mak--1 ing the south to north jour* i ney in 7hr 22min. 1
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