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Hazel Bess Laugenour
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Hazel Bess Laugenour (c. 1891ā1960) was an undergraduate at the University of California at Berkeley in literature when she became the first woman to swim across the Golden Gate Strait, which separates the Pacific Ocean from San Francisco Bay on August 19, 1911.[1][2]
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Born | 1891 (1891) |
Died | 1960 (aged 68ā69) |
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Sport | Swimming |
Laugenour capitalized on her international fame by making several movies (one of which is in the collection of the National Film Archives[citation needed]) and touring the country[3] to promote the movies with an elaborate presentation, which included a very large transparent swimming tank, complete with pump motor to approximate tidal conditions. As she was preparing to swim the English Channel, World War I broke out, ending that ambition.
She married Timothy Edmund Fogg and had a daughter, Joan Fogg.