Word: ilsa
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...lion's endurance-and a teen-ager's superstition about a good-luck plastic frog, which she solemnly stations by her starting block before a race. Her challengers: Australia's Dawn Fraser, 22, an octogenarian by swimming standards, and the slumping, doubt-ridden Ilsa Konrads, the 16-year-old kid sister of John. World Record Holder Fraser will be the favorite in the 100 meters (her main threat: Chris von Saltza), and a dark horse in the 100-meter butterfly, thereby stands an outside chance of winning three gold medals on her own, plus a fourth...
...history, lowered her American record for the 100 meters by .3 sec. with a trial heat time of 1:01.3, coasted home to win the finals in 1:02.5. Then, in the grueling 400 meters she knocked .9 sec. off the world's record of Australia's Ilsa Konrads, 16, with the time...
...meet was billed as a tour de force for the amazing Konrads kids, the finest freestylers in history. John, 17, and Ilsa, 15, each held six world records. Barrel-chested John was superb: he shaved .3 sec. off his 220-yd. record with a time of 2:01.6, later swam the 440 in 4:15.9, to break his record by 3.1 sec. (and better by .7 sec. the 400-meter mark of Japan's Tsuyoshi Yamanaka), ended by chopping 17.7 sec. off his record for 1,650 yds. (and 1,500 meters) with a time...
...week belonged to Dawn. Mounting the starting blocks with Ilsa in the 440, dark-haired Dawn waggled her broad shoulders and cracked: "Anyone for a swim?" Then she loafed along behind Ilsa for seven of the eight laps before uncorking a demoralizing finishing sprint to win easily in 4:47.4. The race completely undermined Ilsa's hitherto calm confidence ("She's scared of Dawn," confided Coach Don Talbot), turned Dawn into a worldbeater. In the 110-yd. butterfly, a stroke she had taken up only recently to freshen her interest in swimming, Dawn clocked 1:10.8 to slice...
...Australia's Prodigy Ilsa Konrads, 15, clipped 3.2 sec. off the world's record to win the 440-yd. freestyle event in 4:45.4 at the New South Wales swimming championships. Swimmer Konrads' time also eclipsed the record for 400 meters, ran her collection of world freestyle championships to six: 800 meters, 880 yds., 1,500 meters...