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Dawn Fraser AC MBE was inducted into the Sport Australia Hall of Fame in 1985 as an Athlete Member and the first female member to be elevated to Legend of Australian Sport in 1993 for her contribution to the sport of swimming.

Dawn Fraser was one of the most iconic and most decorated athletes in Australia sport history while demonstrating the larrikin behaviour to match her ability at the same time. Her record in the pool included eight Olympic medals, six British Empire and Commonwealth gold medals and setting 23 individual world records and 12 as part of a team.

Dawn’s dominance of the 100m freestyle was part of her legacy claiming the Olympic title at the 1956 Melbourne, 1960 Rome and 1964 Tokyo Games, the first swimmer to win gold in three successive games of either gender. She was the first woman to break the minute for the 100m freestyle and held the record for the event for sixteen years.

Dawn first started swimming at the age of four at the Balmain Baths in Sydney before competing seriously by the age of eleven. It was by chance that Dawn and her friends stumbled ac

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Dawn Fraser AC MBE

Dawn Fraser AC MBE (b. 1937), swimming champion, had a stranglehold on the women's 100m freestyle from 1956 to 1964. The youngest of eight children, Fraser grew up in the Sydney suburb of Balmain and took up swimming partly because it helped alleviate her asthma. In 1953 she was noticed by swimming coach Harry Gallagher, who found her swimming style – and manners – 'rough', but considered her so promising that he offered to train her for free. She scored her first national championship title in the 220 yards freestyle in 1955. Later that year, she set new Australian records in four events and in early 1956 won the national 110 and 220 yards freestyle titles, the latter in world record time. At the Melbourne Olympics, Fraser established another world record in winning the 100m freestyle and was part of the gold medal-winning 4 x 100m relay team. She won the 100m again in Rome in 1960 and in Tokyo in 1964, making her the first swimmer, male or female, to win the same event at three consecutive Olympics. In total, between 1956 and 1964, Fraser broke 39 world recor

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Dawn Fraser AC MBE OLY is Australia’s greatest Olympian. In November 1999, Dawn was awarded “World Athlete of the Century” at the World Sport Awards in Vienna. In the same year was also awarded “Athlete of the Century” by the Australian Sports Hall of Fame. She was voted the person who best symbolises Australia and in 1998 was included as one of Australia’s National Living Treasures.

Dawn Fraser’s sporting accomplishments are unlikely to be repeated - in swimming or any other sport. She is an international phenomenon: a multi-Olympic and Commonwealth Games Gold Medal winner whose success stretched over fifteen magnificent years. During her career she broke and held 41 World records and was undefeated over 100 metres freestyle.

Born in the Sydney suburb of Balmain, Dawn is the youngest of eight children from a working-class family. In 1952, her awesome swimming ability was noted by coach Harry Gallagher, who took over the training of the broad-shouldered teenager and set the 1956 Olympics in her sights.

In 1955 Dawn won her first Australian ti