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The fastest Cook Strait champion (3rd of 3)

The fastest Cook Strait champion

Twenty-one-year-old Denise Anderson, pictured with her coach Duncan Laing, crossed Cook Strait from south to north on 20 January 1986, in an amazing time of five hours four minutes.

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Otago Daily Times
Reference: 23 January 1986, p. 20

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Nancy Swarbrick. 'Open water swimming', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, updated 2-Mar-09
URL: http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/open-water-swimming/3/3/3