Swedish Girl Has Swum Three Seas

Southland Times, Issue 23989, 2 December 1939, Page 16

Swedish Girl Has Swum Three Seas

The Swedish champion girl swimmer, Sally Bauer, who swam the English Channel in August, started from Cap Gris Nez on the French coast, and after swimming for 15 hours and 22 minutes, reached land on the other side of the channel about six English miles southwest of Dover. Miss Bauer is the first Swede and the first Scandinavian to accomplish this feat. The current, which was expected to help her forward, was remarkably weak, otherwise she would very probably have set up a new record, reports state. During the first seven hours she covered two-thirds of the entire' distance.

After eight hours she had swum 15 miles, and had only six left to Dover, but this distance cost her nearly as much time as the 15 miles she had already covered, and much more energy. This was because a strong counter current kept her at about the same place for a considerable time.

Besides holding all the Swedish woman swimming records from 200 metres up to the English mile, this young girl has swum no fewer than three seas. In 1938 she swam over the Kattegatt, covering a distance of 25 miles, and a few days later she swam over the Aland Sea, a distance 'of 19 miles, and now she has also crossed the channel.