Catherine Astrid Salome Freeman (innate February 16, 1973) is an Australian athlete. As an Aborigine, she is regarded as a model for her population, & by several in the non-Aboriginal community as a symbol of national reconciliation between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians.

Natural inside Mackay, Queensland, Australia, Freeman won a Olympic title within the 400 m event in front of her at home crowd in Sydney on September 25, 200In a period of the Sydney 2000 Olympics. A ribbon is esteem Australia's Hundredth gold laurel wreath. Earliest, she lit a Olympic Flame in the Games' opening ceremonies. This mass produced her a simply Olympic fire lighter world health organizatiin went on to win a gold medallion at the equivalent games.

Before 2000, Freewoman experienced already won 2 Globe Championships around the equivalent few feet away, in Athens (1997) and Seville (1999). At a 1996 Atlanta Olympics, she won the silver behind Marie-José Perec of France in the 400m event.

She created much of arguing at a 1994 Commonwealth Games by waving the Aboriginal flag as well as a Australian flag when you took her lap of honour of the arena. Unremarkably, merely a national flag is so waved. There was there is no such contestation once she did a equivalent fallowing winning her gold laurel wreath at a Sydney 2000 Olympics, possibly though a have of non-national flags at a Olympics is officially forbidden.

Freewoman got an extended-long-run romanticist relationship by using Nick Bideau, her manager, that ended in acerbity & legal haggle on top Freewoman's endorsement earnings.

Freewoman married Sandy Bodecker, the Nike executive, in 1999, nursing him across the bout of cancer, taking a long break from either a track to launder soh. She announced their separation around February 2003.

Giving to going around 2003, Freewoman clearly struggled for form & motivation fallowing losses to approaching Australian runner Jana Pittman, and the fifth placing withinside an athletics meet in Might in which she was thoroughly trounced by Ana Guevara of Mexico, the fastest 400 metre runner at that period.

In July 15, 2003 Freeman announced her retirement from competitory heading.