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Fanny Durack (left) and Mina Wylie were the first two women to represent Australia in swimming at the Olympics. They were club-mates in Sydney and completed an Australian quinella in the 100 m freestyle. Clare Dennis was the first Australian to win gold in a non-freestyle event, the 200 m breaststroke, at the 1932 Summer Olympics.
In every single swimming event, from the men’s 50-meter free to the women’s 400-meter IM, humans have shaved second after second off world-best times throughout and since the 20th century. The ...
The first Olympic gold medal to be officially awarded to a woman at any Olympics was the Australian swimmer, Fanny Durack, who won medal at the 1912 Summer Olympics in the 100 metres (330 ft) freestyle event. [27] Att the 1956 Summer Olympics, an Australian woman won a medal in every women's swimming event held during the games. [27]
Australian female medley swimmers (75 P) F. Female Paralympic swimmers for Australia (102 P) S. Australian synchronised swimmers (1 C, 45 P) W. Australian female ...
An Olympics commentator has been dropped after making a controversial comment about the Australian female swimming team. Bob Ballard, a commentator for Warner Bros. Discovery-owned network ...
In February 2024, at the World Aquatics Championships in Doha, Perkins was part of Australia's swimming team that took silver in the 4×100 meter freestyle. [2] She also won silver in the 4×100 mixed freestyle and 4×100 meter mixed medley after swimming the trial heats in both events where Australia subsequently took medals in the finals.
Michelle Jan Ford MBE [1] (born 15 July 1962) is an Australian former long-distance freestyle and butterfly swimmer of the 1970s and 1980s, who won a gold medal in the 800-metre freestyle, bronze in the 200-metre butterfly, and 4th in the 400-metres freestyle at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. [2]
She was the first Australian swimmer, male or female, to hold world records in all freestyle distances at the same time. On 25 August 1956 at the Australian National Training Camp at Tobruk Pool in Townsville, Queensland, she became the first woman to break the five minute barrier for 400 m freestyle; along the way she broke three other world ...