Batty back in water
PA Tauranga Four weeks after almost drowning in a swimming accident, the- former All Black, Grant Batty, was competing with more than 300 others in a Tauranga harbour swim on Saturday. Batty, a former Tauranga City Councillor, was pulled unconscious from a private pool in Auckland and spent several days in intensive care in Auckland Hospital. He had minimal training for the Lions Clubsponsored harbour swim
since the accident but did not strike any problems, he said from Auckland yesterday. “I took it easy, and recorded a time of about an hour,” he said. Batty said the swim had been an annual event for him for the last seven years. “This is my seventh year ... I didn’t want to miss out.” A Mount Wellington man, Paul Taylor, aged 32, recorded the fastest time of 34 minutes, 51 seconds.
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