Cathy Freeman specialised in the 400 metres and became the Olympic champion for the women's 400 metres at the 2000 Summer Olympics.
Freeman was the first ever Aboriginal Commonwealth Games gold medalist at age 16 in 1990.
At the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Canada, Freeman won gold in both the 200 m and 400 m. She also won the silver medal in the 1996 Olympics and came first at the 1997 World Champion in the 400 m event.
1998 saw Freeman taking a break from running due to injury. She returned to form with a first place in the 400 m at the 1999 World Championships.
In 2000 her image was beamed into millions of homes around the world when she became the first competing athlete to be invited to light the Olympic flame at the opening ceremony of the Sydney Olympic Games.
In winning the gold medal in the 400m her Olympic dream had come true.
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