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Team – manual and electronic timing. Honours. Notable athletics achievements. Books. References. External links. Betty Cuthbert. 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] .
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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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.
Biography. At the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne, Elizabeth "Betty" Cuthbert won two gold medals in the individual track sprints (100 and 200m) and a third gold in the 400m relay. The 18-year-old was instantly acclaimed as a national heroine by the home Australian crowd, and was nicknamed the "Golden Girl."
Olympic Games. Betty Cuthbert (born April 20, 1938, Merrylands, New South Wales, Australia—died August 6, 2017, Perth, Western Australia) 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.
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...
Aug 7, 2017 · Four-time Olympic gold medallist Cuthbert dies. The IAAF is deeply saddened to hear that Australia’s Betty Cuthbert – the only athlete in history to win Olympic gold medals at 100m, 200m and 400m – died on Sunday (6) at the age of 79 after a long battle with multiple sclerosis.
