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Catherine Astrid Salome Freeman OAM (born 16 February 1973) is an Aboriginal Australian former sprinter, who specialised in the 400 metres event. [2] Her personal best of 48.63 seconds currently ranks her as the eighth-fastest woman of all time, set while finishing second to Marie-José Pérec 's number-four time at the 1996 Olympics. [3]
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.. Freeman began competitive running on the advice of her stepfather. At age 17 she won a gold medal at the 1990 Commonwealth Games as a member of the 4 × 100 ...
2 days ago · Cathy Freeman. Cathy Freeman’s mother, Cecelia, of the Kuku Yalanji people, was born on Palm Island. Her father, Norman ‘Twinkletoes’ Freeman, of the Birra Gubba mob, was born at Woorabinda in Queensland. Freeman was born in Mackay in 1973. Always proud of her ancestry, Freeman hoped her success as an athlete would be an inspiration to ...
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 ...
📲 Subscribe to @olympics: http://oly.ch/Subscribe Highlights from Cathy Freeman's Gold medal victory in the Women's 400m during the Sydney 2000 Olympic Gam...
Norman Freeman: Cathy’s father was an ex- Rugby League player from Woorabinda. (p.5) He started drinking heavily and behaving violently when Cathy was young, and her mother used to have to take the children to stay with her parents for the weekend. (p.5)
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. Bursting onto the scene at 16 years of age, Cathy ran in the Commonwealth ...
Homecoming win. 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 · Twenty years after Cathy Freeman carried the hopes of a nation at the Sydney Olympics, she shares her full story for the first time, and talks about the work that lies ahead.
Sep 14, 2020 · Cathy FREEMAN Athletics. "It just feels like a dream." Even 20 years after she carried the hopes of a nation to win 400m Olympic gold in front of a raucous home crowd in Sydney, Cathy Freeman still can't quite believe what she achieved, and what her win meant for her country. It was a turbulent time politically – Australia was trying to come ...
