Fraser, Dawn

Fraser, Dawn
born Sept. 4, 1937, Balmain, near Sydney, Austl.

Australian swimmer.

She broke the women's world record for the 100-m freestyle race nine successive times between 1956 and 1964 and became the first woman swimmer to win gold medals in three consecutive Olympic Games. Her 1964 100-m freestyle record of 58.9 seconds stood for eight years. She set world marks in freestyle swimming at six different distances.

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▪ Australian athlete
born September 4, 1937, Balmain, near Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
 
 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. Her mark of 58.9 seconds, established on February 29, 1964, at North Sydney, was unbroken until January 8, 1972, when Shane Gould (Gould, Shane), a fellow Australian, achieved 58.5 at Sydney.

      At the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne, Fraser captured gold medals in the 100-metre freestyle event and in the 4 × 100-metre freestyle relay race. She repeated her triumph in the 100-metre freestyle at the 1960 and 1964 Games, in Rome and Tokyo respectively, and added silver medals in the 400-metre freestyle (1956), the 4 × 100-metre freestyle relay (1960, 1964), and in the 4 × 100-metre medley relay (1960). Her performances in the 1964 Olympics were especially noteworthy because she had been injured seriously in an automobile accident in March of that year.

      In 1957 Fraser won the U.S. women's freestyle championship at 110 yards (nearly equivalent to 100 metres). In addition to her unusually long-lived world record for 100 metres, she set world standards (all broken by the early 1970s) in freestyle swimming at five other distances up to 220 yards. Conflicts with Australian swimming officials marred the end of her career.

      Fraser later represented her native Balmain in the parliament of New South Wales, in 1988–91. Her autobiographies were Below the Surface (1965; also published as Gold Medal Girl) and Dawn: One Hell of a Life (2001).

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