Cathy Freeman Biography: Age, Height, Parents, Husband, Children, Net Worth

Cathy Freeman Biography, Age, Height, Parents, Husband, Children, Net Worth – Cathy Freeman is an Aboriginal Australian former sprinter, who specialised in the 400 metres event.

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Cathy Freeman Biography

She was born on February 16, 1973, in Mackay, Queensland, Australia.

Freeman attended several schools including schools in Mackay and Coppabella but was mostly educated at Fairholme College in Toowoomba where she attended after winning a scholarship to board at the school. Her parents divorced in 1978.

In 1987, Freeman moved on to Kooralbyn International School to be coached professionally by Romanian Mike Danila, who became her first coach and later a key influence throughout her career; he provided a strict training regime for the young athlete.

In 1988, she was awarded a scholarship to an exclusive girls’ school, Fairholme College in Toowoomba. In a competition in 1989, Freeman ran 11.67s in the 100 metres and Danila began to think about entering her in the Commonwealth Games Trials in Sydney.

Cathy Freeman Age

She is 50 years old

Cathy Freeman Height

Her height is 5 feet 5 inches

Cathy Freeman Parents

She was born to Norman Freeman and Cecelia.

Cathy Freeman Siblings

She and her brothers Gavin, Garth and Norman were raised there and in other parts of Queensland. She also had an older sister named Anne-Marie who was born in 1966 and died in 2000 . Anne-Marie had cerebral palsy and spent much of her life in the Birribi care facility in Rockhampton.

Cathy Freeman Nationality

He is an Australian

Cathy Freeman Career

Shirley Strickland, who won more Olympic gold medals than any other Australian athlete before her, was the Olympics torchbearer in 2000.

Australian sprinter who won the silver at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta and took gold four years late in Sydney.

Before she won the gold medal in the 2000 Olympics, she was the first competing athlete invited to light the Olympic flame at the opening ceremony.

She became the first Aboriginal sprinter to win a gold medal at the Commonwealth Games. At the 1994 Commonwealth Games she won the 200 and 400-metre gold medals. The 1992 Barcelona Olympics were her first Olympics but she did not make the finals. At the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, Freeman won a silver medal.

Throughout her career, Freeman regularly competed in the Victorian Athletic League where she won two 400 m races at the Stawell Gift Carnival. Freeman did not compete during the 2001 season. In 2002, she returned to the track to compete as a member of Australia’s victorious 4 × 400 m relay team at the 2002 Commonwealth Games.

In 2007 Freeman founded the Cathy Freeman Foundation. The Foundation works with four remote Indigenous communities to close the gap in education between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australian children, by offering incentives for children to attend school.

She joined with actress Deborah Mailman on a road trip, a four-part television documentary series Going Bush (2006) where the pair set off on a journey from Broome to Arnhem Land spending time with Indigenous communities along the way.

Cathy Freeman Husband

Freeman had a long-term romantic relationship with Nick Bideau, her manager, that ended in acrimony and legal wranglings over Freeman’s endorsement earnings. Freeman married Alexander “Sandy” Bodecker, a Nike executive and 20 years her senior, in 1999. After her success in Sydney she took an extended break from the track to nurse Bodecker through a bout of throat cancer between May–October 2002. She announced their separation in February 2003.

“Since retiring I got married to my husband James and four years ago we had a little girl Ruby,” says Cathy. “I now juggle motherhood with community advocacy and oversee The Cathy Freeman Foundation which helps Indigenous children and their families recognise the power of education and achieve their goals and dreams.”

Cathy Freeman Children

The pair welcomed their daughter, Ruby Anne Susie Murch in 2011 and the trio have formed a tight family unit.

Cathy Freeman Net Worth

Cathy has an estimated net worth of $4 Million.