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Feb 9, 2010 · Cathy Freeman Wins 400m Gold - Sydney 2000 Olympics. 📲 Subscribe to @olympics: http://oly.ch/Subscribe Highlights from Cathy Freeman's Gold medal victory in the Women's 400m during the...
Sep 25, 2015 · 📲 Subscribe to @olympics: http://oly.ch/Subscribe On September 25th 2000, Cathy Freeman won Olympic gold in front of a home crowd as she beat Lorraine Graham and Katherine Merry in the Women's...
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.
Sep 24, 2019 · Cathy Freeman lighting the Olympic cauldron will be forever etched in Australia’s memory. Cathy, as she always has did her nation, her race and herself proud. She’s overcome obstacles...
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.
Dec 4, 2022 · Cathy Freeman was the final torchbearer and had the honour of lighting the Olympic cauldron. She was young, female and Aboriginal, marking the organisers’ hopes that the Games would promote reconciliation in Australia. Dressed in a white fireproof bodysuit, Freeman carried the torch up several flights of stairs.
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 ...
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 ...
Sep 14, 2020 · 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.
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.
