Cathy Freeman
Year Competition Venue Position Event
2000 Golden League 2000 - Exxon Mobil Bislett Games Oslo , Norway 1st 400 m
2000 Golden League 2000 - Herculis Zepter Monaco 1st 400 m
2000 Golden League 2000 - Meeting Gaz de France de Paris Paris , France 1st 200 m
2000 Golden League 2000 - Memorial Van Damme Brussels , Belgium 1st 400 m
2000 Grand Prix 2000 - Athletissima 2000 Lausanne , Switzerland 1st 400 m
2000 Grand Prix 2000 - CGU Classic Gateshead , Great Britain 1st 200 m
2000 Grand Prix 2000 - Melbourne Track Classic Melbourne , Australia 1st 400 m
2000 Grand Prix 2000 - Tsiklitiria Meeting Athens , Greece 1st 400 m
Competition record -- Circuit performances
Catherine Astrid Salome Freeman, (born 16 February 1973) is an Australian former sprinter, who specialised in the 400 metres event. She would occasionally compete in other track events, but 400m was her main event. Her personal best of 48.63 currently ranks her as the eighth-fastest woman of all time, set while finishing second to Marie-José Pérec's number-three time at the 1996 Olympics. She became the Olympic champion for the women's 400 metres at the 2000 Summer Olympics, at which she lit the Olympic Flame. Freeman was the first Australian Indigenous person to become a Commonwealth Games gold medallist at age 16 in 1990. The year of 1994 was her breakthrough season. At the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Canada, Freeman won gold in both the 200 m and 400 m. She also won the silver medal in the 1996 Olympics and came first at the 1997 World Championships, in the 400 m event. In 1998, Freeman took a break from running due to injury. She returned from injury in form with a first place in the 400 m at the 1999 World Championships. She announced her retirement from athletics in 2003. In 2007, she founded the Cathy Freeman Foundation.