![]() ![]() During the 1994 season, Freeman took 1.3 seconds from her 400 m personal best, achieving 50.04 seconds. She also competed as a member of Australia's 4 × 100 m squad, winning the silver medal and as a member of the 4 × 400 m team, who finished first but were later disqualified after Freeman obstructed the Nigerian runner. Competing at the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Canada, Freeman won gold in both the 200 m and 400 m. At the 1993 World Championships in Athletics Freeman competed in the 200 m, reaching the semi-finals.ġ994 was Freeman's breakthrough season, when she entered into the world's elite for the first time. Also in 1992, she traveled to her first Olympic Games in Barcelona, reaching the second round of her new specialty event, the 400 metres, and finishing 7th as part of the Australian team in the women's 4 × 400 m relay finals. She competed only in the 200 m, winning the silver medal behind China's Hu Ling. There, she reached the semi-finals of the 100 m and placed fifth in the final of the 400 m.įreeman competed in her second World Junior Championships in Seoul, South Korea. She was then selected to represent Australia at the 1990 World Junior Championships in Athletics in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. Shortly after moving to Melbourne, her manager Nic Bideau introduced Freeman to athletics coach Peter Fortune, who would become Freeman's coach for the rest of her career. She moved to Melbourne in 1990 after the Auckland Commonwealth Games. The team won the gold medal, making Freeman the first-ever Aboriginal Commonwealth Games gold medalist, as well as one of the youngest, at 16 years old. In 1990, Freeman was chosen as a member of Australia's 4 × 100 m relay team for the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland, New Zealand. In a competition in 1989, Freeman ran 11.67 s in the 100 metres and Danila began to think about entering her in the Commonwealth Games Trials in Sydney. In 1988, she was awarded a scholarship to an exclusive girls' school, Fairholme College in Toowoomba. ![]() In 2007, she founded the Cathy Freeman Foundation. She announced her retirement from athletics in 2003. She returned from injury in form with a first place in the 400 m at the 1999 World Championships. In 1998, Freeman took a break from running due to injury. She also won the silver medal at the 1996 Olympics and came first at the 1997 World Championships in the 400 m event. At the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Canada, Freeman won gold in both the 200 m and 400 m. The year 1994 was her breakthrough season. She became the Olympic champion for the women's 400 metres at the 2000 Summer Olympics, at which she lit the Olympic Flame.įreeman was the first Australian Indigenous person to become a Commonwealth Games gold medalist at age 16 in 1990. Her personal best of 48.63 seconds currently ranks her as the ninth-fastest woman of all time, set while finishing second to Marie-José Pérec's number-four time at the 1996 Olympics. Catherine Astrid Salome Freeman OAM (born 16 February 1973) is an Australian former sprinter, who specialised in the 400 metres event. ![]()
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