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World Record
From Texas Monthly, quoted in Reader's Digest, June 1981
World Record
From Texas Monthly, quoted in Reader's Digest, June 1981
Kim Linehan holds the world record in the Women's 1500-meter freestyle. According to her coach, Paul Bergen, the 18-year-old is the leading amateur woman distance swimmer in the world. Kim does endless exercises and swims 7 to 12 miles a day. The hardest part of her regimen? "Getting in the water," she says.