CHANNEL SWIMMING

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 211, 20 August 1934, Page 9

CHANNEL SWIMMING

Girl and Man Succeed BOTH CLAIM RECORDS By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright LONDON, August IS. An Austrian girl, Miss Emma Faber, swam the English Channel in 14hrs. 30 minutes, beating by four minutes the women ’s record of 14 hours 34 minutes previously made by Miss Gertrude Ederle, of the United States, in 1926. Returning to Calais by boat after her successful swim, Miss Faber claimed the record, slating that she left France at 1.10 a.m., landing on the English coast at 3.18 p.m. She contradicted an English announcement that she left at 0.45 a.m. and landed at 3.25 p.m.

A subsequent announcement states that Miss Faber’s time was 14 hours 40 minutes, six minutes slower than Miss Ederle 'a.

E. H. Temme, a London Insurance clerk, swan; the Channel in 15 hours 54 minutes, this being a record for the swim from England to France. Temme swam from France in 1927 and ho is the first swimmer to have been successful in swimming the Channel both ways. Temme, who is a teetotaller and a non-smoker, aged 29, used the trudgen stroke, at an average rate of 20 to the minute. He landed on tho French coast fit and unexhausted. The previous record from England to France was 16 hours 35 minutes, made by If. Sullivan in 1923. So far there have now been 19 successful Channel swims, those who have previously swum the distance being:— Captain Webb, England (August 2425, 1875), 21 hours 45 minutes. T. W. Burgess, England (Sept. 6, 1911), 21 hours 35 minutes.

H. Sullivan, England (August 12, 1923), 16 hours 35 minutes. 8. Tiraboschi, Argentine (August 12, 1923), 16 hours 35 minutes. C. Toth, U.S.A. (Sept. 9, 1923), 16 hours 54 minutes.

Miss G. Ederle, U.S.A. (August ft, 1926), 14 hours 34 minutes. Mrs M. G. Corson, U.S.A. (August 28, 1926), 15 hours 28 minutes. H. Vierkotter, Germany (August 30, 1926), 12 hours 40 minutes.

G. Michel, France (Sept. 10, 1926), 11 hours 5 minutes (record time).

H. L. Derham, England (Sept. 17, 1926), 13 hours 56 minutes.

’E. H. Temme, England (August 5, 1927) 14 hours 29 minutes. Miss Mercedes Gleitze, England (Oct. 7, 1927), 15 hours 15 minutes. Mrs Ivy Gill, England (Oct. 13, 1928) 19 hours 16 minutes. Miss Ivy Hawke, England (August 18, 1928), .19 hours 16 minutes. Miss Hilda Sharp (August 24, 1928), 14 hours 58 minutes.

Helmy, Egypt (Sept. 1, 1928), 23 hours 40 minutes.

Miss Peggy Dunean, South Africa (September 10, 1930), 16 hours 15 minutes.

The first three of these swims were from England to France; the others all from France to England.