Australia On This Day

12 July - 1912 - Queen Of Swimmers


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REPEAT: At the Stockholm Olympics in 1912, champion swimmer Fanny Durack became the first Australian woman to win a gold medal. But Fanny nearly didn't get there because her very presence at the games had been staunchly opposed by an influential Sydney feminist and by powerful Australian swimming and Olympic bigwigs.

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