Dawn Fraser
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…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.
…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.
