Personal information | |
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Nationality | American |
Born | Pittsburg, California, United States | January 6, 1953
Died | March 31, 2023 70) Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States [1] | (aged
Sport | |
Sport | Athletics |
Event | Pentathlon |
Cathy Hamblin (born January 6, 1953) is an American athlete. She competed in the women's pentathlon at the 1968 Summer Olympics. [2]
Catherine Astrid Salome Freeman is an Aboriginal Australian former sprinter, who specialised in the 400 metres event. Her personal best of 48.63 seconds currently ranks her as the eighth-fastest woman of all time, set while finishing second to Marie-José Pérec's number-four time at the 1996 Olympics. She became the Olympic champion for the women's 400 metres at the 2000 Summer Olympics, at which she lit the Olympic Flame.
Marie-José Pérec is a retired French track and field sprinter who specialised in the 200 and 400 metres and is a three-time Olympic gold medalist.
Cathleen Roxanne Rigby, known as Cathy Rigby, is an actress, speaker, and former artistic gymnast. Her performance in the 1968 Summer Olympics helped to popularize the sport of gymnastics in the United States.
Falilat Ogunkoya-Osheku is a Nigerian former track and field athlete who holds the distinction of becoming the first Nigerian to win an individual track and field medal at the Olympic games.
Catherine Marie Thompson-Baker is a former field hockey player from New Zealand, who was a member of the national team that finished sixth at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California.
Uganda competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany which were held from 26 August to 11 September 1972. The nation's delegation consisted of 33 athletes: seventeen field hockey players, eight boxers and eight track and field athletes
Nicaragua competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Fifteen competitors, all men, took part in nineteen events in six sports.
Uganda competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics which were held in Mexico City, Mexico from 12 to 27 October. The 1968 Summer Olympics were Uganda's fourth entry into an Olympic Games. Eleven athletes attended the Games to represent Uganda, eight boxers and three in track and field events.
Cathy Jean Ferguson is an American former competition swimmer, Olympic champion, and former world record-holder. She competed at the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan, where she received the gold medal for winning the women's 100-meter backstroke, and another gold as a member of the first-place U.S. team in the women's 4×100-meter medley relay.
Cynthia Lee Goyette, also known by her married name Cynthia McCulloch, is an American former competition swimmer, Olympic champion, and former world record-holder. She represented the United States as an 18-year-old at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. She won a gold medal for swimming the breaststroke leg for the first-place U.S. team in the women's 4 × 100-metre medley relay. The U.S. relay team set a new world record of 4:33.9 in the event final; Goyette's teammates included Cathy Ferguson (backstroke), Sharon Stouder (butterfly), and Kathy Ellis (freestyle).
Catherine L. Carr, also known by her married name Cathy West, is an American former competition swimmer, Olympic champion, and former world record-holder in two events.
Catherine ("Cathy") Ann Sulinski is a retired javelin thrower from the United States. She competed for her native country at the 1984 Summer Olympics, finishing in tenth place in the final.
Cathy Schiro O'Brien is a retired female long-distance runner from the United States. She was an Olympian, and she holds the US women's high school record in the marathon. O'Brien set her personal best (2:29:38) in the women's marathon when she won the women's Los Angeles Marathon in 1991.
Cathy Ann Rattray-Williams is a retired female sprinter from Jamaica, who mainly competed in the women's 400 metres during her career. She is a four-time Olympian, making her debut in 1980. She won 17 All-American honors while competing in college for the University of Tennessee.
Cathy Chedal is a French former alpine skier who competed in the 1988 Winter Olympics and 1992 Winter Olympics.
Catherine Jamison is an American former competition swimmer.
Kendis Marion Moore, also known by her married name Kendis Drake, is an American former competition swimmer, Pan American Games medalist, and former world record-holder.
Abbey Cooper is an American middle- and long-distance runner. Cooper is the most decorated Ivy League athlete in track and field and cross country running. She is the first Dartmouth female distance runner to win an NCAA title. She won a total of seven NCAA titles in her career. In 2014, she became a professional runner for New Balance.
Jack Nagel was an American alpine ski racer. He competed in two events at the 1952 Winter Olympics.
Dora Jane Hamblin, known as Dodie Hamblin, was an American journalist and editor. She was the Rome bureau chief for Life magazine in Rome from 1956 to 1960, and oversaw the magazine's coverage of the 1960 Summer Olympics. She was granted special access to the families of astronauts in the Apollo program, to write the book, First on the Moon (1970).