Press Photo Karen Muir South African Swimmer Derby Baths Blackpool

12.8.65 Karen Muir fails to beat her world record ' Wonder swimmer, 12-year old South African Karen Muir, cried at the Derby Baths Blackpool last night (Wednesday), when she failed by just two-tenths of a second to break her world record of 24 hours earlier. Thousands of spectators cheered as Karen easily won the final of the Girls' 110-yards backstroke championship of England. The day previous, in a heat, she had broken the world record, and became the youngest world record breaker in the history of sport, when her time was 68.7 secs. Keystone Photo Shows: Karen Muir making her way to the Derby Baths, Blackpool yesterday (Wednesday), wearing carpet slippers where she carried off the 220-yards freestyle (Girls), championship with a time of 2.23.8.

Photo measures 10.25 x 8 inches.



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