Career
She competed in the same discipline at the 1928 Summer Olympics, but did not reach the finals. Löwy was the youngest of seven children. In the 1920s she started swimming in the Jewish sports club Hakoah Vienna, and for several years since 1925 she was winning the annual five-mile open-water Austrian competition Quer durch Wien (Across Vienna) on Danube that was gathering some 500,000 spectators.
During the 1920s–30s she also collected nearly every national title in freestyle.
Soon after the Anschluss between Germany and Austria in 1938 she fled from Jewish prosecutions first to Italy, and then to Switzerland and Australia. She returned to Vienna in 1949 and worked as a secretary.
Löwy was bisexual and had no children.
