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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 ...
Boy Charlton was the first Australian to win the 1500 m freestyle, an event which Australia has won eight times, the most by any country. The race is sometimes referred to as "Australia's race". 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 ...
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 freestyle swimmers (216 P) Australian female medley swimmers (75 P) F. Female Paralympic swimmers for Australia (102 P) S. Australian synchronised ...
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 also finished in fourth place in the individual open water women’s 10km at the Championships. [7] [8] She competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics in the Women's 1500 metres freestyle, as well as the 10km marathon. [9] In open water she won the silver medal behind her training partner Sharon van Rouwendaal .
International Olympic Committee results database; Wallechinsky, David (2000). The complete book of the Summer Olympics – Sydney 2000 edition. New York: Overlook Press. ISBN 1-58567-033-2. HistoFINA Swimming Medallists And Statistics At Olympic Games, January 31, 2015
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.