Downstream

bathing costume.’
While Kellerman is one of
the few women from the early
1900s whose name hasn’t
been erased from sporting
history, details of her swims –
their lengths and exact dates –
are contradictory. According
to the Annette Kellerman
Aquatic Centre and her
biographer, she swam twenty-
six miles in five hours; the
Sport Australia Hall of Fame
puts it at sixteen miles. But