HARBOUR RACE
New Record To Kindred
Alan Kindred won the Akaroa Harbour race by two minutes in the record time of 59min lOsec when the annual swimming event was held in almost perfect conditions yesterday morning.
Starting quickly, Kindred and Mark Hindle left the rest of a small field and swam together for the first two miles and a half. With a quarter-mile to go, Kindred left his rival far behind in a very powerful burst.
Miss Judith Wright won the women’s race by 40sec from Miss RossaH MacKenzie. to finish in the good time of 65min 23sec. Results were:
Men’s. —A. Kindred (Wharenui), 59:20.0 (record), 1; M. Hindle (Wharenui), 61:10.0, 2; I. Breeze (Sockburn Park), 3. Women’s. —J. Wright (Sockburn Park), 65:23.0, 1: R. MacKenzie (Rangiora), 66:6.0, 2; L. Van Ekeris (Sockburn Park), 3.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19660110.2.61
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Press, Volume CV, Issue 30954, 10 January 1966, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
135HARBOUR RACE Press, Volume CV, Issue 30954, 10 January 1966, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Press. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Acknowledgements
Ngā mihi
This newspaper was digitised in partnership with Christchurch City Libraries.
Log in