What is Cécile Robert?
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2022}} {{Infobox sportsperson | name = Cécile Robert | image = Les soeurs suisses Marthe (G.) et Cécile (D.) Robert, nageuses de grand fond (1906).jpg | image_size = | alt = | caption = Cécile Robert (right) and her sister [[Marthe Robert]] in 1906 | fullname = | nickname = | national_team = | nationality = Swiss | sport = [[swimming]] | club = | coach = | birth_date = c. {{birth year|1883}} | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | height = | weight = | show-medals =yes | medaltemplates = }} '''Cécile Robert''' (born c. 1883) was a Swiss long distance [[swimming (sport)|swimmer]].<ref name=Velez>{{cite web|last=Velez|first=Anne|url=https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00608847/PDF/TheseVELEZ.pdf |title= LES FILLES DE L’EAU. UNE HISTOIRE DES FEMMES ET DE LA NATATION EN FRANCE(1905-1939)|work=Université d’Angers|date=2010|via=tel.archives-ouvertes.fr|access-date=10 November 2022|language=fr}}</ref> Due to their many achievements, she and her sister [[Marthe Robert]] acquired a certain amount of fame.<ref>LE ROY Georges et LEIN Alexandre, Rowing-natation, Paris, Pierre Lafitte et Cie, 1912, p. 323 - via [https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00608847/PDF/TheseVELEZ.pdf LES FILLES DE L’EAU. UNE HISTOIRE DES FEMMES ET DE LA NATATION EN FRANCE(1905-1939)]</ref> ==Biography== Robert was born in around 1883 as the daughter of a swimming teacher at Lake Neuchâtel. She started with swimming when she was ten years old. She was training with her father and her youngher sister [[Marthe Robert]] in [[Lake Neuchâtel]]. They swam all year long, even in the winter. She started with training with a 100 metre at full speed. In 1905 she crosses the lake during a race, a distance of 7.6 kilometres, together with her sister in 2 hours and 50 minutes. In this race she was faster than painter [[Philipp Ritter]]. Behind her 15 men gave up.<ref name=Velez /> On 29 July 1906 she comp