Andrew (Boy) Charlton Pool
Harbourside heated saltwater lap pool on Woolloomooloo Bay, framed by the Royal Botanic Garden and city skyline.
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This guide to Andrew (Boy) Charlton Pool in Sydney opens in January 1924, when a sixteen-year-old schoolboy named Andrew Charlton took on Arne Borg, the world's fastest swimmer, in these waters. It follows what happened after Charlton's win, aboard the ship the two rivals shared to the 1924 Paris Olympics, where Charlton's own coach suffered a breakdown mid-voyage. Stand at this harbourside edge and you're where an unknown teenager first proved himself against the best in the world.
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