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Kōrero: Open water swimming

The fastest woman

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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.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Otago Daily Times

Reference: 23 January 1986, p. 20

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Nancy Swarbrick, Open water swimming – Major marathon courses, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/6912/the-fastest-woman (accessed 4 June 2026).

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