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Olympic Games

by State Library of NSW

Australia is one of only five countries that has attended every modern Summer Olympic Games since 1896 (the others are France, Great Britain, Switzerland and Greece). Celebrate this proud tradition with photos from the State Library of New South Wales' collections. www.sl.nsw.gov.au

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Dawn Fraser and Ilsa Konrads at the Australian National Swimming Championships and Olympic Trials, North Sydney Olympic Pool, 27 February 1960, where the most world records were set in the one pool at one meet, to that time / Jack Hickson
Mrs Chambers (chaperone), Bonnie Mealing, Clare Dennis, Frances Bult, Eileen Wearne, Thelma Kench (N.Z. sprinter) at the Los Angeles Olympics 1932 / by unknown photographer
Cecil Healy, Olympic swimming gold, silver and bronze medallist in Manly Surf Life Saving Club swimsuit, [no date] / photographer unknown
Snowy Baker, Duke Kahanamoku and Frank Beaurepaire, Sydney, [between 1914-1924] / photographer unknown
The Australian Olympic Team at the Olympic Stadium, Los Angeles, 1932 / photographer unknown
Possibly Mina Wylie with an unidentified female swimmer, probably Stockholm Olympics, 1912
Harold Hardwick, William Longworth and [either Australian Leslie Boardman or Malcom Champion of New Zealand, right], Stockholm Olympics, 1912 / unknown photographer
Harold Hardwick, Olympic gold medal swimmer, ca. 1912 / unknown photographer for Referee magazine
Australian Olympians Eileen Wearne and Clare Dennis with Jacquie Lyn of the 'Our Gang' Show, Los Angeles, 1932 / unknown photographer
Betty Cuthbert, c. 1950s, by Ted Hood
The Australasian (combined Australian and New Zealand) Olympic Team at Stockholm's Roddforening [Rowing Association], 1912 / photographer unknown
Kenneth McArthur, who won the marathon race for South Africa, Stockholm, 1912
Start of a girl's swimming race, Mina Wylie with raised hand
Mina Wylie, Coogee, 1913
Portrait of Mina Wylie
Portrait of Mina Wylie
Australia’s first women Olympians, Fanny Durack and Mina Wylie, 1912
Frank Beaurepaire
Frank Beaurepaire
Harold Hardwick
Marjorie Jackson, runner, Lithgow, People, 24 August 1950
Marjorie Jackson, runner, Lithgow, People, 24 August 1950
Eileen Wearne training at Manual Arts High School, Los Angeles, 1932
Andrew 'Boy' Charlton