Search results

Sarah Frances "Fanny" Durack (27 October 1889 – 20 March 1956), also known by her married name Fanny Gately, was an Australian competition swimmer. From...

Maine Fanny Crosby (1820–1915), American Methodist rescue mission worker, poet, lyricist and composer Fanny Durack (born Sarah Frances Durack; 1889–1956)...

or Black Jack Durack Peter Durack QC (1926-2008), Rhodes Scholar, lawyer. politician Ernest Durack (1882–1967), politician Fanny Durack (1889–1956), swimmer...

first two female Olympic swimming representatives, along with friend Fanny Durack. Wylie grew up in South Coogee, in the South-Eastern Suburbs of Sydney...

Archibald Prize); Sir Frances Forbes (first Chief Justice of NSW); Sarah "Fanny" Durack (Olympic gold medal swimmer); William Dymock (book retailer); Nicholas...

include a cricket oval, a rotunda, a children's playground, and the Fanny Durack Aquatic Centre. The oval is used for cricket in the summer months and...

the international level." The inaugural inductees were Freddy Lane, Fanny Durack, Dawn Fraser, Shane Gould and Ian Thorpe. Gould's honour coincided with...

Women's events were added at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm; Fanny Durack and Mina Wylie, Australia's first female representatives, won gold and...

Morning Herald. 11 July 1912. p. 12. "Ladies' Amateur Championships – Miss Durack establishes new record". The Sydney Morning Herald. 8 February 1915. p. 13...

with the 100 metre freestyle and 400 metre team relay taking place. Fanny Durack won the individual contest, breaking the world record for the distance...

built in 1907 by Henry Wylie, the father of Mina Wylie who, along with Fanny Durack, were Australia's first female Olympic swimming representatives, and...

pool in Australia still reserved solely for use by women and children. Fanny Durack and Mina Wylie, who won gold and silver medals in the Women's 100m Freestyle...

Fanny Durack and Mina Wylie became the first female athletes to represent Australia at the Summer Olympics. At the 1912 Stockholm Olympics, Durack won...

bettered the record with 1 minute 23.6 seconds, and in the fourth heat Fanny Durack set a new world record with 1 minute 19.8 seconds. The top two in each...

Edition Winner Time Notes Stockholm 1912  Fanny Durack (AUS) 1:22.2 Antwerp 1920  Ethelda Bleibtrey (USA) 1:13.6 Paris 1924  Ethel Lackie (USA) 1:12.4...

world record and an additional Olympic record at the end of the Games. Fanny Durack and Mina Wylie, the two women who swam for Australasia, finished first...

Records Preceded by Fanny Durack Women's 100-meter freestyle world record-holder (long course) August 23, 1920 – June 30, 1923 Succeeded by Gertrude Ederle...

Games Gold Silver Bronze 100 m freestyle details  Fanny Durack (ANZ)  Wilhelmina Wylie (ANZ)  Jennie Fletcher (GBR) 4 × 100 m freestyle relay details  Great...

Frank Beaurepaire 1908 London Swimming Men's 1500 m freestyle  Gold Fanny Durack 1912 Stockholm Swimming Women's 100 m freestyle  Gold Cecil Healy Malcolm...

for competitions, the baths were used by Fanny Durack and Mina Wylie to develop their swimming skills (Durack and Wylie went on to win gold and silver...