When Mount Isa sent a swimmer to the first Tokyo Olympic Games

By Derek Barry
July 16 2021 - 7:00pm
Reward: John Oravainen with his Silver Medal from the 1962 Perth British Empire and Commonwealth Games. Photographs supplied by John Oravainen.
Reward: John Oravainen with his Silver Medal from the 1962 Perth British Empire and Commonwealth Games. Photographs supplied by John Oravainen.

Mount Isa may not have any athletes competing in this year's summer Olympics but the city was represented the last time the Olympics were held in Tokyo in 1964.

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