Cathy Freeman is a influential indigenous person to Australian society because she has run with a heart and a passion for our country, Australia.
Cathy Freeman in 1990 and 1998
Cathy astrid salome freeman's family members: dad- Norman Freeman mum- Cecilia step dad- Bruce Barber brothers- Gavin,Garth and Norman sister- Ann-Marie (died at young age)
Cathy Freeman won young Australian of the year in 1990 and won the gold medal twice in 1990 and again in 1994. She won Australian of the year once more and retired in 1994.
Freeman values her aborigine society and inspires younger children that there is always hope no matter who you she also has a foundation called the Cathy Freeman foundation which helps young aborigine children succeed in school and better opportunity of getting a scholarship it also helps the family with any payments needed to be done.
Cathy Freeman, an Australian sprinter, received the Australian of the Year award in 1998. She was also awarded Young Australian of the Year.
Cathy Young was born on 1963-02-10.
The Foundation for Young Australians was created in 1999.
Cathy has 2 young children
In 1987, Freeman moved on to Kooralbyn International School to be coached professionally by Romanian Mike Danila, who became her first real coach and later a key influence throughout her career; he provided a strict training regime for the young athlete.
Young Australians - 2003 is rated/received certificates of: Australia:G
Cathy Astrid Salome, popularly known as Cathy Freeman, was born in 1973 in Slade Point Mackay, Queensland, Australia. In 1996, at the age of 23, she went to the Olympics which was held in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. In 2000, she lit the Olympic flame in Sydney, Australia. But she became the first ever Aborignal Commonwealth Games Gold Medal winner, at the age of 16, at the age of 16 at the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria, Canada.
Cathy has 2 young children