Cathy Freeman was Australia's first aboriginal Track and Field athlete and in 1992 she became the first Australian Aborigine to compete in the Olympic Games and in 1990 became the first to win a medal in an international track meet (bronze in the 4x400 meter relay at the Auckland Commonwealth Games in 1990).
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She was encouraged to run track and field by her stepfather, Bruce Barber. Her paternal grandfather, Frank Fisher, had been an outstanding rugby player in the Aboriginal Leagues. She won her first track championship at the age of 8.
The address of the Freeman Army Air Field Museum Inc is: Po Box 714, Seymour, IN 47274-0714
Four events. It is the same for any track meet, on any level.
Carl Lewis (He won 10 Olympic medal, 9 of them gold)
Steve Hooker in men's pole vault at the 2008 Games in Beijing.