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Freeman was the first Indigenous Australian person to become a Commonwealth Games gold medalist at age 16 in 1990. [5] . The year 1994 was her breakthrough season. At the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Canada, Freeman won gold in both the 200 m and 400 m.
Jun 7, 2024 · Cathy Freeman (born February 16, 1973, Mackay, Queensland, Australia) is an Australian sprinter who excelled in the 400-metre dash and who in 2000 became the first Australian Aboriginal person to win an individual Olympic gold medal.
Cathy Freeman was born in Queensland on 16 February, 1973. Cathy became involved in athletics at a very young age and won her first race at eight years old. During her 2000 Olympic Games victory lap in the 400 metre sprint she carried both the Australian and Aboriginal flags — a symbol of reconciliation and pride in her Aboriginal cultural ...
Dec 4, 2022 · On 15 September 2000 Aboriginal athlete Cathy Freeman lit the Olympic flame in the spectacular opening ceremony of the Sydney Olympic Games. Ten days later she won the gold medal in the women’s 400 metres race, achieving her greatest goal. Cathy Freeman, 2003:
BIRTH DATE: 16 February 1973. BIRTH PLACE: Slade Point, Mackay, Queensland. FIRST LANGUAGE: English. SIGNIFICANT LOCALITIES: Mackay, Queensland: Cathy was born in Mackay, and grew up in a housing-commission on Burston Street. (p.4)
World Championship 400m wins in 1997 and 1999 made Cathy Freeman the favourite for the 2000 Sydney Games, where she was also given the honour of lighting the Olympic cauldron. Under pressure to perform well for her home crowd, she won a resounding victory in the 400m final – Australia’s 100th Olympic gold medal.
Sep 10, 2020 · Olympic champion Cathy Freeman hasn't yet seen the final version of the new documentary, Freeman. She's going to watch it on telly with her husband James and their nine-year-old daughter on Sunday ...
An Australian household name, Cathy Freeman can be heralded as one of Australia’s greatest ever sportspeople. Cathy was the leader for athletics in Australia during the 1990s and at the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games, inspiring thousands of Australians to pursue the sport.
Now, she has re-lived everything surrounding the Sydney 2000 Games – her background, lighting the Olympic flame at the Opening Ceremony, and winning Olympic gold – in a new documentary about her life, FREEMAN, from Australian broadcaster ABC.
Cathy Freeman, is an Olympic gold medallist who won the 400m in front of a home crowd at the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games. Learn more about Cathy's Olympic jo...
