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silver medal at the Olympics. Then, in July 1923, she won the long-distance Thames race, followed the next mont ...
the Olympic Committee told her there was already a chaperone and that she would have to go at her own expense, ...
the first celebrity crewmember. By now she had ‘broken and lowered English records at almost every yards distance avail ...
return to live with her parents again’, although in the mid- 1960s she would teach Ian and his brother to swi ...
While Ian always knew about his grandmother’s swimming career, and used to beg for information about her trophies, ...
up to it,’ says Ian. ‘She was a sprint swimmer really and more used to a pool but it was an ASA ch ...
A 1925 publicity photo of swimming superstar Hilda James in her role as Cunard ‘cruise hostess’ aboard RMS Carinthia. Ian himsel ...
Bournemouth and he’s built like an eel’. Yet although he has many medals, trophies and archive pictures, he doe ...
Ian’s delight she was recently nominated for inclusion in the International Swimming Hall of Fame. ...
Joyce Cooper winner of the 1931 Women’s Long Distance Swimming Championship from Mortlake to Putney, one of several long-distanc ...
Olympic Games in Berlin, later explaining, ‘being Jewish, it was unthinkable to compete in the Games in Nazi Germany, ...
Windsor and Hampton Court, there are no mass- participation events either. I head down to the Thames Path, stop ...
dare, and swam across the river and back before winning a prize of a pint of beer. Downstream in the ne ...
clamber up diving boards and hurl themselves off. Today Chiswick is the location of the Great River Swim, ...
carnivals of yesteryear. Steve Newell, the swim’s founder, explains, ‘I’d been doing Iron Man triathlons but ...
course I could. I tried it out one summer’s day at high tide, from Chiswick Pier to the Surrey bank, ...
that pleasant but not so bad.’ Just as would later happen at Henley and Maidenhead, when Steve advertised ...
can be difficult.’ So the second year they swam parallel to the bank; ‘there is a quiet area near the ...
thunderstorm and the sewers were overflowing. There had been a general alert to canoe and row clubs not to ...
in a few minutes, then you keep close to the riverbank as there is less current at the edge. It’s a ...
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