OPEN SEA SWIMMING RACE
WON BY A WOMAN (United Pres 3 Association) NEW PLYMOUTH, 29th March. Miss Winnie Richardson won the Flannagan Gup open sea swim of tut? miles and a half from a Held of 16 swimmers in cold, windswept water. Only four of the field finished. Miss Richardson ofT the limit (smi») maintained a lead the whole way and finished four minutes ahead of D. Gayton, last year’s winner, who had the fastest time, 84min 38sec although lie repeatedly suffered from cramp. " Miss L. Wickham, of Stratford, was third, and A. Pettigrew, of Stratford was the only other to finish.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 30 March 1936, Page 5
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