# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/cathy-freeman
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:35:25.766Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/cathy-freeman"
name: "Cathy Freeman"
slug: "cathy-freeman"
description: "Catherine Astrid Salome Freeman is an Australian former sprinter, who specialised in the 400 metres event. Her personal best of 48.63 seconds currently ranks her as the 11th-fastest woman of all time, set while finishing second to Marie-José Pérec's number-six time at the 1996 Olympics. She became the Olympic champion for the women's 400 metres at the 2000 Summer Olympics, at which she had lit the Olympic Flame."
tagline: "Australian short-distance runner"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Cathy_Freeman_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "AU"
category:
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  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
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  slug: "athlete"
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birthDate: "1973-02-16"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             10
  historical:           22.22136
  currentAttention:     30
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  211
  category: 241
platforms:
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    handle:    "cathyfreeman"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.cathyfreeman.com.au"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump