Dawn Fraser
Title: Dawn Fraser
Category: /Recreation & Sports
Details: Words: 263 | Pages: 1 (approximately 235 words/page)
Dawn Fraser
Category: /Recreation & Sports
Details: Words: 263 | Pages: 1 (approximately 235 words/page)
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…showed last 75 words of 263 total…but Fraser beat her in the Australian 110-yard event, breaking the longest standing world record, set 20 years before. Later the same week she cracked the world record for the 200m and 220 yards. In the Melbourne Games Fraser was victorious in the 100m.
In 1960 a few months before the Rome Olympics, Dawn Fraser beat world record holder Ilsa Konrads, in the 440 yards. She went to the Olympics in Rome won the 100m freestyle and two relays.
