Raelene Boyle
Raelene Boyle AM , MBE ( Raelene Ann Boyle ; born June 24, 1951 in Coburg , Melbourne , Victoria ) is a former Australian athlete and Olympic runner-up.
Her international sporting career began when she took part in the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City , where she won the silver medal in the 200-meter run behind Poland's Irena Szewińska and ahead of her compatriot Jenny Lamy . She finished fourth in the 100-meter run .
In 1970 she won gold three times in the British Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh in the 100 meters, 200 meters and in the 4-by-100-meter relay .
In her second Olympic participation at the 1972 Games in Munich , she won the silver medal in the 100-meter run behind the German Renate Stecher and in front of the Cuban Silvia Chivás as well as the silver medal in the 200-meter run behind Renate Stecher and in front of Irena Szewińska.
1974 she won at the British Commonwealth Games in Christchurch again three times gold over 100 meters, 200 meters and in the 4-by-100-meter relay; then silver over 100 meters at the Commonwealth Games 1978 . At the Commonwealth Games in Brisbane in 1982 , she won gold in the 400-meter run and gold with the team in the 4-by-400-meter relay .
She then ended her sporting career without being able to realize her dream of an Olympic gold medal and worked as a landscape gardener . In 1996 Boyle was diagnosed with breast cancer. In 1998 she became a founding member of the Sporting Chance Cancer Foundation, which raises funds to fight cancer.
At the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney , she was one of six outstanding women in Australian sports history, alongside Betty Cuthbert , Shirley Strickland de la Hunty , Dawn Fraser , Shane Gould and Debbie Flintoff-King , who carried the torch with the Olympic flame through the round of the Olympic Stadium before Cathy Freeman lit the flame.
Web links
- Raelene Boyle in the database of World Athletics (English)
- Raelene Boyle in the database of Athletics Australia (English)
- Raelene Boyle in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Biography ( February 21, 2005 memento on the Internet Archive ) of Graham Thomas on Athletics Gold - Track & Field Athletics Australia
- Boyle, Raelene Ann (1951 -) , entry in The Australian Women's Register, October 18, 2002 (last changed June 13, 2007)
Footnotes
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Boyle, Raelene |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Boyle, Raelene Ann (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Australian athlete and Olympian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 24, 1951 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Melbourne , Victoria |