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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.

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1992 Games in Barcelona.

She competed in the 400 meter run and the 4x400 meter relay events. She did not qualify for the finals of the 400 meter run and she finished 7th with the Australian team in the 4x400 meter relay.

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No she didn't. She would have been far too young. She ran in Sydney in 2000 (12 years later)

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Cathy Freeman won the 400m at the Olympic Games in Sydney in 2000. She also ran 200m and 4x400mR at major games.

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Cathy freeman started the Olympics when she was 20

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Cathy freeman was born in 1973 on the 16th of February

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