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}} Sarah Frances "Fanny" Durack (27 October 1889 – 20 March 1956), also known by her married name Fanny Gately, was an Australian competition swimmer. From 1910 until 1918 she was the world's greatest female swimmer of all distances from freestyle sprints to the mile marathon.〔Helen King, "(Durack, Sarah (Fanny) (1889–1956) )", ''Australian Dictionary of Biography''〕 ==Life and career== Durack learned to swim in Sydney's Coogee Baths using breaststroke, the only style for which there was a championship for women at that time. In 1906 she won her first title, and over the next few years, dominated the Australian swimming scene. In the 1910-11 swimming season, Mina Wylie beat Durack in the 100-yard breaststroke and the 100- and 220-yard freestyle at the Australian Swimming Championships at Rose Bay. The two went on to become close friends. In the late 1910s, Durack held every women's swimming world record from 100 metres to a mile. The New South Wales Ladies Swimming Association initially was opposed to women participation in the Olympic Games.〔 The 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm was to be the first Olympics to have women's swimming. Durack and Wylie were initially refused permission by NSWLSA to compete, but later they were allowed to go provided they bore their own expenses. They organised local fundraising to raise the funds for themselves as well as for the obligatory chaperones.〔Lenskyj, Helen (2013) ''(Gender Politics and the Olympic Industry )''. ISBN 978-1-137-29114-1〕 Durack set a new world record in the heats of the 100-metre freestyle. She won the final, becoming the first Australian woman to win an Olympic gold medal in a swimming event. Until the 1932 Olympics (when Clare Dennis won the 200-metre breaststroke in Los Angeles〔http://www.olympic.org/content/results-and-medalists/gamesandsportsummary/?sport=42422&games=1932%2F1&event=31784〕) she was the only such woman; and until the 1956 Olympics she and Dennis were the only two such women. During World War I, the statue of Mary and the infant Jesus on top of the Basilica of Notre-Dame de Brebières in Albert, Somme, France, was hit by a shell on 15 January 1915, and slumped to a near-horizontal position. Australian troops nicknamed the leaning statue "Fanny", in honour of Fanny Durack as it resembled the swimmer diving off the blocks. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Fanny Durack」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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