Word: konradses
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Dates: during 1958-1958
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In Australia, where limber-limbed youngsters have a habit of cracking world records, swimming fans had guessed that some day a 15-year-old Latvian immigrant named Jon Konrads would be a champion. But no one knew much about his kid sister, 13-year-old Ilsa, except that she had...
While Australia was still blinking at Ilsa's tremendous race, brother Jon got up on the starting block for the men's 880-yd. freestyle, gazed calmly at his opponents (who included three Olympic swimmers), and hit the water as if fired from the starting pistol. Flat out...
Jon and Ilsa Konrads, the children of a Latvian dental mechanic who emigrated to Australia in 1949, may already be the finest freestylers in the world-a fact to make swimming experts boggle at what the pair might do in the next few years, as they grow to adult swimmers...