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Aboriginal Australian athlete and Olympic gold medallist (born 1973)
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.
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Kipchoge is a name of Kalenjin origin meaning "of the store ". The name follows a Kalenjin naming custom where the birth name has to describe the time or place of birth, physical attributes of the baby, the circumstances surrounding the birth, ancestral reincarnation, initiation rites, military exploits or the family's prized possessions.
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