Cathy Freeman

Cathy Freeman didn’t care about be rich or famous she just wanted to have a loving family and a life she would not regret. Cathy has had an up and down relationship status. She first fell for her manager Nick Bideau of six years; they broke up because it was too hard on her but Nick still stayed her manager and her friend. In 1999 Freeman married a Nike executive, Sandy Bodecker who was 20 years older than her. After her success in Sydney she took a break to nurse Bodecker through a bout of throat cancer between May-October 2002. In February 2003 Cathy announced their separation. Later that year, Freeman began dating Australian actor Joel Edgerton whom she initially met at the 2002 TV Week Logies. Their relationship ended in early 2005. In October 2006 Freeman announced her engagement to Melbourne stockbroker James Murch. They married at Spray Farm on the Bellarine Peninsula on the 11th of April 2009, Cathy gave birth to Ruby Anne Susie Murch on the 8th of July 2011.

Cathy Freeman began athletics at a very young age. Her first coach was her step father, Bruce Barber. She had started to win in all the things that she loved to compete in. By her early teens she had a collection of regional and national titles, having competed in the 100, 200 metre sprints and high jump. When Freeman had moved to Kooralbyn International School to be coached by Mike Danila he had become very helpful with her start of her real career. He was her first real coach, he provided a strict training regime for the young athlete.

Cathy first competed in the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland, New Zealand. She won a gold medal for the 4x100 meter relay team. With this medal she became the first female Australian aboriginal to win a gold medal at an international athletics event. In 1992 she went to the Olympic Games in Barcelona, Spain. Here Cathy Freeman became the first Australian aboriginal to represent Australia at an Olympic Games. At the 1994 Commonwealth games, Victoria,