What is Emma Faber?
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2023}} {{Infobox swimmer | name = Emma Faber | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | fullname = | nickname = | nationality = Austrian | strokes = | club = | coach = | birth_date = {{birth date|1894|10|9|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Vienna]], Austria | death_date = {{death date and age|1962|||1894|10|9|df=y}} | death_place = Vienna, Austria | height = <!-- {{convert|x.xx|m|ftin|abbr=on}} --> | weight = <!-- {{convert|xx|kg|lb st|abbr=on}} --> | show-medals =yes | medaltemplates = }} '''Emma Faber-Johanny''' (9 October 1894 - 1962) was an Austrian open water [[swimming (sport)|swimmer]] in the 1930s. In 1934 she broke the [[English Channel]] swimming record.<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><ref name=ref1>{{cite web|url=https://www.channelswimmingdover.org.uk/content/swimmer/faber-fraulein-emma |title=Faber, Emma|work=channelswimmingdover.org.uk|date=|access-date=2 January 2023|language=en}}</ref> ==Biography== On 26 August 1933 faber tried to swim the English Channel from France to England. After 11 hours and 35 minutes she had to give op. Her second attempt on 8 August 1934 also failed, after 5 hours. Her third attempt on 18 August 1934 was an success. She started at Cap Gris Nez at 12.45 am and finished after 14 hours in South Foreland at 2.51 pm.<ref name=ref1 /> After her succesfull attempt, the public interest had waned. On her returnn in Vienna only two people besides her husband were at the station for her. She and her husband were unemployed and became in serious financial straits. In her swimming attempts from 1931 to 1934 Faber had spent all the savings of herself and her