Media item

The Schelde cup swimming contests

Week number 61-28

Newsreels in which Dutch subjects of a certain week are presented.

Type:
video
Length:
01:34
Publication date:
1 July 1961
User:
Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
Creator:
Polygoon-Profilti (producer) / Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (curator)
Source:
WEEKNUMMER612-HRE00016777

A ship with swimmers sails out of the harbour of Vlissingen for the eighteenth international Schelde cup swimming contest. Aboard the swimmers are rubbed in with grease, after which they board rowing boats in Nieuwesluis. The they go into the water and swim towards Vlissingen. Van Hemert from Breda wins, Richard from de Dolfijn (the Dolphin) comes in second and Ineke Tiggelaar from De Robben (The Seals) comes in third.