Story: Open water swimming

The fastest woman (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 - Major marathon courses', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/photograph/6912/the-fastest-woman (accessed 30 March 2024)

Story by Nancy Swarbrick, published 12 Jun 2006, updated 1 Feb 2016