Record ID:
35105989 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
LC number:
  • nr2002000056
Heading:
Birth:
  • 19370904
  • Balmain (N.S.W.)
Associated with:
  • Australia
Fields of activity:
  • Swimming
Occupations:
  • Swimmers Olympic athletes Politicians Legislators
Notes:
  • Dawn Fraser interviewed by Susan Mitchell for Winning women in the Susan Mitchell collection, 1984
  • Memories of a fox, 1998 p. 121 (Dawn Fraser) Australian National Library CIP on verso t.p. (Fraser, Dawn, 1937-)
  • Wikipedia, January 20, 2015 (Dawn Fraser; Dawn Fraser AO, MBE (born 4 September 1937) is an Australian champion swimmer and former politician. She is one of only three swimmers to have won the same Olympic event three times--in her case the 100 metres freestyle; born in the Sydney suburb of Balmain; in 1988, she was elected an independent Member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly (MLA) for the seat of Balmain. Fraser left politics when the seat was abolished in 1991; medalist in 1956, 1960, and 1964 Summer Olympics)
Local system number:
  • (AuCNL)12484
  • 000000106576
  • abv02058313
Cataloguing source:
  • CtY eng rda CtY WaU ANL
Authentication code:
  • kin anuc