JAP SWIMMERS BREAK MORE WORLD RECORDS

Grey River Argus, 20 August 1949, Page 3

JAP SWIMMERS BREAK MORE WORLD RECORDS

(Rec. 10.50) NEW YORK, Aug. 18 Hironoshin Furuhashi, of Japan, broke another world record to win the four hundred metres free style final at the National Amateur Athletic Unions’ meeting in Los Angeles. He did the 400 metres in four minutes thirty-three seconds. This is one and nine-tenth? seconds better than existing record. The old record was four minutes thirty-five point two seconds. It was set by Alex Jany, of France, in 1947. Furuhashi clocked the first hundred metres in sixty-seven seconds; the second hundred in sixty-seven seconds and the third hundred in sixtynine decimal five seconds. Japanese swimmers also filled the second, third and fourth places. A Japanese team won the relay race in eight minutes fourty-five point four seconds. This was five seconds under the worid record set by the United States Olympic squad in London last year.