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1928 SPORTS / SWIMMING - Mercedes Gleitze in training for Irish sea swim
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0:29Now PlayingDate: 1st January 1928
Location: United Kingdom
Source: Reuters Historical News Collection: GAUMONT GRAPHIC NEWSREEL (REUTERS)
SLATE INFORMATION: Muscular Mercedes: If legs mean anything, Miss Gleitze, training at Blackpool, is well set for her Irish Sea swim
ENGLAND: Lancashire: Blackpool:
Mercedes Gleitze, the first woman to swim the English Channel in 1927 standing with others / Mercedes Gleitze exercising on table / Gleitze exercising on beach / Close shot of Gleitze
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