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Dawn Fraser

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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. Her mark of 58.9 seconds, established on February 29, 1964, at North Sydney, was unbroken until January 8, 1972, when Shane Gould, a fellow...

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