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| Full name | Sarah Frances Durack | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 27 October 1889 Sydney, Australia | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 20 March 1956 (aged 66) Sydney | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Breaststroke, freestyle | ||||||||||||||
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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.[1] From 1910 until 1918 she was the world's greatest female swimmer across all distances from freestyle sprints to the mile marathon.[2]
- ^ "Fanny Durack". Olympedia. Retrieved 8 June 2021.
- ^ King, Helen, "Durack, Sarah (Fanny) (1889–1956)", Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, retrieved 12 July 2018