--- description: ¶ Speedster Sir Malcolm Campbell and his new motorboat Bluebird II: a race against a watch; covering a measured mile in 25.2 sec. in one direction and 25.6 in the opposite direction, for an... title: Sport: Who Won, Aug. 28, 1939 image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [U.S.](/section/us/) # Sport: Who Won, Aug. 28, 1939 by [TIME](/author/time/) Aug 28, 1939 4:00 AM CUT by [TIME](/author/time/) Aug 28, 1939 4:00 AM CUT ¶ Speedster Sir Malcolm Campbell and his new motorboat Bluebird II: a race against a watch; covering a measured mile in 25.2 sec. in one direction and 25.6 in the opposite direction, for an average speed of 141.74 m.p.h., setting a new world’s record for speed on water; at Lake Coniston, England. Sport: Who Won, Aug. 28, 1939 ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6761230/sport-who-won-aug-28-1939/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6761230/sport-who-won-aug-28-1939/"},"headline":"Sport: Who Won, Aug. 28, 1939","datePublished":"1939-08-28T04:00:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-28T17:29:35.790Z","description":"¶ Speedster Sir Malcolm Campbell and his new motorboat Bluebird II: a race against a watch; covering a measured mile in 25.2 sec. in one direction and 25.6 in the opposite direction, for an...","url":"https://time.com/archive/6761230/sport-who-won-aug-28-1939/","keywords":[],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/author/time/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/archive/6761230/sport-who-won-aug-28-1939/","name":"Sport: Who Won, Aug. 28, 1939"}}]}] ```