Fanny and Mina

By: Samantha Tidy
Illustrated by: Hilary Cresp
Genre: YNWW - Children’s / Teenage general interest: Swimming and boat, paddle and other water sports and activities
Published by: Windy Hollow
Published: 12 May 2026
ISBN: 9781922998231

Description

“Women’s Swimming at the Stockholm Games!”

When Fanny and Mina see the headline that women will compete in swimming for the first time at the Stockholm Olympic Games they are determined to make the team. But first they have to convince the Australian Olympic Committee that sending women is not a waste.

The story of Fanny Durak and Mina Wylie, who against the odds, became the first women to win Olympic medals in swimming.