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Who was Fanny Durack?

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Australia's first woman Olympic gold medalist and the best woman swimmer in the decade of the 1910s. She won the gold medal in women's 100 meter freestyle at the 1912 Summer Games in Stockholm.

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Fanny Durack died on 1956-03-20.


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