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Betty Cuthbert, 100m final, 1956 Olympics. Cuthbert was a member of the Western Suburbs Athletic Club. [1] At the age of 18, with the 1956 Summer Olympics to be held in Melbourne, Cuthbert set a World Record in the 200 metres, making her one of the favourites for a gold in that event.
At the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne, Elizabeth "Betty" Cuthbert won two gold medals in the individual track sprints (100 and 200m) and a third gold in the 400m relay. The 18-year-old was instantly acclaimed as a national heroine by the home Australian crowd, and was nicknamed the "Golden Girl."
Betty Cuthbert was an Australian sprinter, who starred at the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne, Australia, where she won three gold medals; she added a fourth gold medal at the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo. Cuthbert began running at age eight and was trained by a schoolteacher in the little New South.
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Aug 7, 2017 · Betty Cuthbert, the Australian sprinter dubbed the "golden girl" after her 100 and 200-metre successes at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics, dies aged 79.
Only 18 years old at the time of the 1956 Olympics, Australian Betty Cuthbert emerged as the single most outstanding women’s track-and-field athlete of the Games—and as an inspiration to young runners everywhere.
Aug 7, 2017 · The Australian sprinter, who won the 100m, 200m and 400m at the 1956 Melbourne Games, passed away after a long battle with multiple sclerosis. She was also the first woman to win the 400m at the 1960 Rome Olympics and was inducted into the IAAF Hall of Fame in 2012.
Aug 7, 2017 · Australian sprinting legend and four-time Olympic gold medallist Betty Cuthbert has died aged 79. At the age of 18, Cuthbert won three gold medals at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics - the 100m,...
