OLYMPIC SWIMMERS
BORG BEATS CHARLTON RUNAWAY VICTORY. (Received ll a.m.) United Press Assn —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. AMSTERDAM. August 6. The 1500 metres free style swim final resulted:— Arne Borg (Sweden) 19.51 4-5 1 ; Andrew Charlton (Austi a1ia)20.2 3-5 2 ; Crabbe (America) 3. . - Borg fed throughout. He was eight metres ahead at half-way and increased his lead in the laist 150 metres. He won by fifteen metres with twenty between second and third, an Olympic record. , . The women’s 400 metres free style swim final resulted: — . Mies Norelius (America) 1 ; M.is.s Braun (Holland) 2: Mrs McKim (America) 3, Time, 5.42 4-5, a world’s record. • . At cycling in the 1000 metres time test, Hanisen (Denmark) 1.14 2-5 1; Brakenstein (Holland) 1.15 1-5 2; Gray (Australia) 1.15 2-5 3.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10907, 7 August 1928, Page 6
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