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Kōrero: Open water swimming

Preparing to swim

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Preparing to swim

Open water swimmers are not allowed to wear thermal swimming costumes. To protect themselves from the cold, which can be lethal, they coat their bodies with grease, such as lanolin. Here marathon swimmer Philip Rush is being covered with grease before his successful double crossing of Lake Taupō in January 1985.

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New Zealand Herald

Reference: 15 January 1985

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Nancy Swarbrick, Open water swimming – Long-distance and marathon swimming, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/6888/preparing-to-swim (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Nancy Swarbrick, i tāngia i te 2 March 2009, updated 1 February 2016.