Below the Surface: Confessions of an Olympic Champion

by Dawn Fraser, Harry Gordon

Includes B&W photographs. Published in Australia under the title, Gold Medal Girl.

Genres: Sports, Memoir

250 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1965

About the author

Dawn Fraser was an Australian champion swimmer. She is the first of only two swimmers in Olympic history to win individual gold medals for the same event at three successive Olympics. She won eight Olympic medals, including four gold medals, and six Commonwealth Games gold medals. She also held 39 records. The 100 meters freestyle record was hers for 15 years from 1 December 1956 to 8 January 1972.

Born in the Sydney suburb of Balmain, Dawn is the youngest of eight children from a working-class family.