Lorraine Crapp

Lorraine Crapp, later Lorraine Thurlow, born on 1 October 1938, is an Australian freestyle swimmer who won two Olympic gold medals at the 1956 Melbourne Games, in the 400 m freestyle and the 4 x 100 m freestyle relay, and added Olympic silver medals in 1956 and 1960. In August 1956 she became the first woman to swim 400 m freestyle in under five minutes, with a time of 4 minutes 47.2 seconds that also broke three other world records. Over her career she set 23 world records and won nine Australian titles, and in 1957 she received the Christopher Columbus Trophy as the outstanding athlete in the world. She was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame in 1972, the Sport Australia Hall of Fame in 1986 and the Swimming Australia Hall of Fame in 2023.