Betty Cuthbert biography
Betty Cuthbert, byname of Elizabeth Cuthbert, (born April 20, 1938, Merrylands, New South Wales, Australia—died August 6, 2017, Perth, Western Australia), Australian sprinter, who starred on the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne, Australia, the place she gained three gold medals; she added a fourth gold medal on the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo.
Cuthbert started working at age eight and was skilled by a schoolteacher within the little New South Wales city wherein she grew up. As a youngster, she carried out nicely however laboured within the shadow of her teammate Marlene Matthews, whose occasions have been superior to hers. Cuthbert was so unsure about her efficiency that she purchased tickets to attend the Melbourne Games as a spectator. She needn't have anxious: within the first spherical of the 100-metre occasion she smashed the world report with a time of 11.4 sec, main the sphere by 1.5 metres (5 toes). Although she was immediately hailed as a nationwide hero, the unassuming 18-year-old Cuthbert quietly ready for her subsequent race, the 200 metres, which she gained 4 days later with a time of 23.4 sec. Several days after that, she anchored the Australian 4 × 100-metre relay staff, incomes her third gold medal of the 1956 Games.
During the years 1956–63, Cuthbert held 12 world data in races at distances of 60 to 400 metres. A pulled hamstring pressured her to overlook the 1960 Olympics in Rome, however in 1964 she gained the primary ladies’s Olympic 400-metre race with a time of 52 sec. She later described her efficiency as “the only perfect race I have ever run.” In 1966 her autobiography, Golden Girl, was printed.