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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. 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.
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.
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Oct 8, 2020 · Why Cathy Freeman’s 400m Gold at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney was a performance of enormous symbolic power. Few moments epitomise grace under pressure so elegantly as the Aboriginal...
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.
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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.
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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.
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Sep 11, 2020 · Two dramatic narratives arc through this documentary that marks 20 years since Cathy Freeman’s Olympic triumph: her reflections as an elite athlete, and our experience as a nation of...
