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Dawn Fraser AC MBE (born 4 September 1937) is an Australian freestyle champion swimmer, eight-time olympic medalist, a 15-year world record holder in the 100-meter freestyle, and former politician. Controversial, yet the winner of countless honors, she has enjoyed national prominence and sparked national pride in Australia.
Dawn Fraser (born September 4, 1937, Balmain, near Sydney, New South Wales, Australia) is an Australian swimmer, the first woman swimmer to win gold medals in three consecutive Olympic Games (1956, 1960, 1964). From 1956 to 1964 she broke the women’s world record for the 100-metre freestyle race nine successive times.
Dawn Fraser arrived in Tokyo for the 1964 Games as a three-time gold medal-winner on the verge of completing an extraordinary Olympic first. But she was also a lost 27-year-old dealing with severe pain and tragedy.
On 21 February 1956, 18-year-old Dawn Fraser broke Willy den Ouden's 20-year-old world record for the 100m freestyle. The Australian breaker. On 1 December of the same year, Fraser led an Australian medal sweep of the event at the Olympic Games in Melbourne, setting another world record in the process. She gained a second gold medal in leading ...
Jul 10, 2021 · Dawn Fraser is one. Back in 1964 she was setting records for her feats in the Tokyo Olympic pool and making headlines for her shenanigans away from the water. A nine-year-old Japanese boy watched it all on television, enthralled.
Dawn Fraser was Australia's original golden girl. She is regarded as a sporting legend in the country. With eight Olympic medals, six Commonwealth Games titles and 39 records including a 100m freestyle record she held for 15 years, perhaps her greatest moment came at Tokyo 1964.
Brash, confident, and strong-willed, Australian Dawn Fraser became a dominant figure in women’s swimming during the 1950s and ’60s, despite a penchant for Olympic misadventures that frequently drew the ire of coaches and officials. Fraser was the clear favourite for the gold medal in the 100-metre.
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