New Swimming Record
(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) PARIS. Miss Ann Fairlie, the 17-year-old South African swimmer, broke the world record for the women’s 100 metres backstroke with a time of Imin 7.4 sec at an international swimming meeting in Beziers, France, on Saturday. Miss Fairlie clipped threetenths of a second off the record set by the American swimmer, C. Ferguson, at the Olympic Games in Tokyo, in 1964.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31120, 25 July 1966, Page 14
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65New Swimming Record Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31120, 25 July 1966, Page 14
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