Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 December 1966Vol. 37, No. 12

New Record

p. 25 · Read in the full issue

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Swim Time

Competitors at the Noumea Games will not merely have trouble breaking records —they will find it a hard job keeping abreast of the latest records they have to beat! Almost every month standards go higher and records become correspondingly harder to obtain.

One of the latest records to be broken was in Sydney on November 19, when 17-year-old Kathy W ainwright set a new world time of 9m. 50.3 s for the 880 yards freestyle. She passed the 440 yards mark in 4m. 46.55.

Her effort was 5.9 s faster than the previous world record set by Miss Patty Caretto, of the US, at Cardiff in 1965.

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