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Catherine Freeman OAM was inducted into the Sport Australia Hall of Fame in 2005 as an Athlete Member for her contribution to the sport of athletics and was elevated as a Legend of Australian Sport in 2011.

At 16 years of age, Catherine won gold at the 1990 Auckland Commonwealth Games as part of the 4x100m relay team, and at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics she became the first Aboriginal track and field athlete to represent Australia at an Olympic Games. In 1994 she won double gold at the Victoria Commonwealth Games in the 200m (22.25 secs) and 400m (50.38).

In Melbourne 1996, she became the first Australian woman to run under 50 seconds for the 400m. Then at the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games, she became the sixth fastest woman ever over 400m, running a Commonwealth record and winning silver (48.63) behind Marie-Jose Perec in arguably the greatest one lap race of all time. After Atlanta, Freeman won back to back World Championships in the 400m in 1997 (49.77) and 1999 (49.67) then won the 200m (22.78) and 400m (50.00) national titles in February 2000 at Stadium Australia.

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Cathy Freeman, born in Mackay, Queensland, is part of the Kuku Yalanji people of far north Queensland through her mother and the Burri Gubba people of central Queensland through her father.

Freeman joined athletics at a very young age under the guidance of her step-father, winning her first race at only eight years old. By the time she turned 14 she had won national titles in the high jump, and the 100, 200 and 400 metre sprints.

In 1990, at the age of 16, she became the first-ever Aboriginal Commonwealth Games medallist after the Australian relay team she was a part of came first in the 4x100m relay at the Commonwealth Games in Auckland, New Zealand.

Image: Cathy Freeman carrying both flags after the 400 metres at the Sydney Olympics. Source: National Museum Australia.

1994 Controversy

In the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Canada she won double gold however that was overshadowed by the controversy that followed her 400m win after she chose to carry both the Australian and Aboriginal flags.

Many deemed this to ‘political’ and this was further pushed by

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Cathy Freeman

Aboriginal Australian athlete and Olympic gold medallist (born 1973)

"Catherine Freeman" redirects here. For the British television producer, see Catherine Freeman (television producer).

For the fictional character, see Kathy Freeman.

Freeman in 2008
Full name	Catherine Astrid Salome Freeman
Born	(1973-02-16) 16 February 1973 (age 52) Mackay, Queensland, Australia
Education	Kooralbyn International school Fairholme College
Alma mater	University of Melbourne
Occupation	Australian sprinter/runner
Height	164 cm (5 ft 5 in)
Weight	56 kg (8 st 11 lb; 123 lb)^[1]
Spouse	Sandy Bodecker (m. 1999; div. 2003) James Murch (m. 2009; sep. 2024)
Country	Australia
Sport	Sprint
University team	University of Melbourne
Coached by	Step-father Bruce Barber, Mike Danila, Peter Fortune
Retired	1 July 2003

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