RECORDS BROKEN
SWIMMING AT DUNEDIN OTAGO CHAMPIONSHIPS (United Frese Association! DUNEDIN. Bth December. Two Otago and two New Zealand records were broken at the Otago amateur championships which were concluded in the municipal paths to-night. Miss Winnie Dunn lowered her own record for the 100 metres breaststroke of I. by 1 1-5 seconds, and Miss Christine' Garvin registered 2.47 4-5 in the 220 j yards intermediate girls’ free style.! breaking Miss Kathleen Grey’s record j by a second. Colin Sell swam the j junior boys’ 75 yards backstroke in 60 j seconds, and W. Dyson took 3.2 2-5 for the men’s 220 yards breaststroke, both 1 Otago records. Title winners are : 75 yards intermediate girls' breaststrike: M. Stewart. Time, 65 1-5. 75 yards .junior boys’ backstroke: C. Sell. 60see. 100 yards intermediate boys’ breaststroke: 1. Wilson, 2.4 2-5. 100 yards women’s breaststroke: W Dunn. 1.24. 100 yards junior girls’ freestyle: A. Smith, 1.21 1-5. 220 yards women’s freestyle: l. Purdie. 2.54 3-5. Intermediate girls’ diving : R. Smith. Women’s diving: G. Rix. 100 yards men’s freestyle: E. B. Toase, 61 2-5. Men’s diving: D. Freeman. 220 yards men’s breaststroke: W. Dyson, 3.2 2-5. Intermediate boys’ diving: R . B. Ingram. 220 yards intermediate boys’ freestyle ; J. B. McGregor. 1.22 4-5. 100 yards women's backstroke: I. * Purdie. 1.22 4-5. i 220 yards intermediate girls' freestyle: ! C Garvin. 2.47 4-5.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 9 December 1938, Page 7
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