she quickly became
fascinated by Ivy Hawke. A
swimmer herself, Rebecca
had never imagined ‘that
women were swimming long-
distance races in the Thames
a hundred years ago’. She
competed in her first open-
water swim at the age of
eleven, the Midmar Mile in
South Africa, taking part
every year for the next six
years with her best time
around twenty-four minutes.
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