1500 - The Story of Australia's Race

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Australians have won more Olympic medals in the 1500M freestyle than swimmers of any other nationality. It is undoubtedly 'Australia's Race'.
From Andrew 'Boy' Charlton in 1924 to Grant Hackett eighty years later, the 1500m freestyle attracts our interest like no other swimming event. Whether it was Kieren Perkins eying for one, two and finally three Olympic golds, or the indredible feats of Murrary Rose, John Konrads and the original 'Superfish' Stephen Holland, the 1500m transfixes the nation. But why? Thirty laps of a pool hardly seems the stuff of edge-of-the-seat viewing, yet time and again the nation stops for those extraordinary fifteen minutes.