Cathy Freeman

... was born in Queensland in 1973. Her main event was the 400m; in 2016 she was still the sixth-fastest woman ever at that distance.

At Auckland in 1990, aged 17, she became the first Indigenous Australian to win a Commonwealth Games gold medal. At Sydney in 2000, after lighting the Olympic flame, she became the first to win an individual Olympic gold.

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