Aussie swimming icon Dawn Fraser Dawn Fraser became the first Olympic swimmer to win the same event three times when she claimed gold in the 100m freestyle final in Tokyo 1964, just seven months after suffering serious injuries in a car crash that also killed her mother. Via the17thman

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