Dimdima
Online Children's Magazine from India
Dimdima
Online Children's Magazine from India
Dawn Fraser was born in Sydney, Australia. She was the youngest of 8 children and took up swimming because it helped ease her asthma.
Dawn was 19 years old when she won the gold in the 100 m freestyle at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics. She was nicknamed 'water baby' when she anchored the Australian team to gold in the 4x100 freestyle relay. She also won silver in the 400 m freestyle.
She won the gold in the 100 m at the 1960 Rome Olympics too and then again at the 1964 Tokyo Games to become the first swimmer in Olympic history to win gold in the same event in three consecutive games.
At Tokyo, the 27-year-old startled the Japanese by climbing the flagpole at the emperor's palace and taking the flag as a souvenir! She paid a heavy price for this misdemeanour, being banned for ten years from international sports. The ban was later reduced to four years.
During her 9-year swimming career, Dawn set 28 world records and won 8 Olympic medals. She lowered the world mark in her pet event, the 100 m freestyle, no less than 10 times, swimming it under a minute in 1964.
Dawn Fraser was named Australia's greatest female athlete in 1988.
last updated on: 5/14/2021
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Dimdima is the Sanskrit word for ‘drumbeat’. In olden days, victory in battle was heralded by the beat of drums or any important news to be conveyed to the people used to be accompanied with drumbeats.
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Dimdima.com, the Children's Website of Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan launched in 2000 and came out with a Printed version of Dimdima Magazine in 2004. At present the Printed Version have more than 35,000 subscribers from India and Abroad.