Featuring remarkable achievements from athletes the like of; Betty Cithbert, Australai’s “Golden Girl” who was only 18 when she smashed the Olympic record for the 100m dashand took home three gold medals; Dawn Fraser, the first Olympic swimmer of either sex to win the same event three times; Raelene Boyle, the super sprinter twice runner-up in the 200m track event, beaten by world record wins each time,; and Jack Lovelock who scored an incredible victory in one of the most hotly contested 1500m finals in Olympic history. Porduction based on the Big Fights Olympic library.
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Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
305678
Language
English
Audience classification
G
Subject categories
Documentary → Documentary films - Australia
Feature films → Feature films - Australia
Hobbies, Recreation & Sport → Athletes
Hobbies, Recreation & Sport → Olympics
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Colour
Holdings
VHS; Access Print (Section 1)