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Elizabeth Alyse Cuthbert, AC, MBE (20 April 1938 – 6 August 2017), was an Australian athlete and a four-time Olympic champion. [1] . She was nicknamed Australia's "Golden Girl". [2] . During her career, she set world records for 60 metres, 100 yards, 200 metres, 220 yards and 440 yards.
Apr 16, 2024 · Betty Cuthbert was an Australian sprinter, who starred at the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne, Australia, where she won three gold medals; she added a fourth gold medal at the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo. Cuthbert began running at age eight and was trained by a schoolteacher in the little New South.
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Cuthbert is the only Olympic sprinter, man or woman, to have won gold medals in the 100m, 200m, and 400m. Between 1956 and 1964 she set or equaled 18 world records over 60m, 100 yards, 220 yards and 400m, and in the 4x100 and 4x220 relays. In 1979, Cuthbert was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.
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Only 18 years old at the time of the 1956 Olympics, Australian Betty Cuthbert emerged as the single most outstanding women’s track-and-field athlete of the Games—and as an inspiration to young runners everywhere.
Betty Cuthbert was a famous Australian athlete and Olympian. Winner of four Olympic gold medals, she is fondly remembered as the “Golden Girl”. A runner since childhood, it came as no surprise that she would aim for the Olympics one day.
Aug 7, 2017 · The Australian sprinter, who won the 100m, 200m and 400m at the 1956 Melbourne Games, passed away after a long battle with multiple sclerosis. She was also the first woman to win the 400m at the 1960 Rome Olympics and was inducted into the IAAF Hall of Fame in 2012.
Aug 6, 2017 · Betty Cuthbert, Australia’s “golden girl” of track and field, revered for her Olympic gold-medal feats and then her long and spirited struggle against multiple sclerosis, has died in Western...
