CHANNEL SWIM
SUCCESSFUL FEATS AUSTRIAN GIRL'S TIME CLAIMS WOMEN'S RECORD TEMME'S SECOND CROSSING By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received Aupnst 19. 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, August 18 An Austrian girl, Emma Faber, swam the Channel to-day in 14 hours 40 minutes, or six minutes slower than the women's record created by Gertrude Ederle (United States) in 1926. On returning to Calais by boat Miss Faber claimed a record, stating that she left France at 1.10 a.m. and landed at 3.18 p.m., contradicting the English announcement that she left at 12.45 a.m. and landed at 3.25 p.m. The London insurance clerk, E. M. Tcmme, swam the Channel in 15 hours 54 minutes, a record from England to France. Temme swam from France in 1927 in 14 hours 29 minutes and is the first swimmer to have been successful
both ways He is 29 years old, a teetotaller and non-smoker. He used the trudgeon stroke, averaging 20 a minute. When he landed he was not exhausted.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21883, 20 August 1934, Page 9
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161CHANNEL SWIM New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21883, 20 August 1934, Page 9
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