At those 1947 World Championships, Lesche won all four distances and the difference in samalog points with the silver medallist, Norwegian skater Else Marie Christiansen, was 20.923 points – the largest difference in history between numbers one and two at an international championship.
Jules Verne | Verne Gagne | Around the World in Eighty Days (Verne novel) | Verne Meisner | Verne | Nautilus (Verne) | Verne Lundquist | Verné Lesche | Michel Verne | Jules Verne Trophy | Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon |
She won a bronze medal at the World Allround Speed Skating Championships for Women in 1939 in Tampere, behind Verné Lesche and Liisa Salmi.