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of sixteen she was the 100
metres world record holder.
She then set a women’s world
record for the mile in thirty-
two minutes twenty-nine
seconds, a time she later
lowered to twenty-eight
minutes, and her first long-
distance swim was ten miles
in Melbourne’s Yarra River.
She also gave exhibitions of
swimming and diving at the
Melbourne baths, and swam
with fish in a glass tank at the