The Archive · 1938

Soviet Swimming Star To Perform in Paris

Holder of World Breast- Stroke Title

London, June 20.

Semyon Boitchenko, holder of the World's record of 1 minute 6 2/10 &econds for the 100 metres breast Stroke, is to be included in the Soviet swimming team which will compe! in Paris at the end of this month The Soviet team will be made up lot one woman swimmer and four men, two of the latter to be breast-stroke swimmers and the othét) two crawl stroke swimmers.

The meeting will be held in connection with the 30th anniversary of the French Swimming Federation Reuter.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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