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Betty Cuthbert
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Key facts
- Nationality
- Australian
- Born
- Elizabeth Alyse Cuthbert , ( 1938-04-20 ) 20 April 1938, Ermington, New South Wales , Australia
- Died
- 6 August 2017 (2017-08-06) (aged 79), Mandurah , Western Australia , Australia
- Height
- 5 ft 6 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (169 cm)
- Weight
- 126 lb (57 kg)
- Country
- Australia
- Sport
- Athletics
- Event s
- 100 metres , 200 metres , 400 metres
- Coached by
- June Ferguson
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Betty
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Australia
- Place of birth
- Sydney
- Place of death
- Mandurah
- Occupation
- sprinter
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Participant in
- 1956 Summer Olympics
- Sport
- athletics
- Country for sport
- Australia
- Mass
- 57
- Image
- Betty Cuthbert, c. 1950s, by Ted Hood.jpg
- Height
- 169
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- Commons category
- Betty Cuthbert
- date of birth
- 1938-04-20
- sports discipline competed in
- sprinting
- date of death
- 2017-08-06
- manner of death
- natural causes
- cause of death
- multiple sclerosis
- nickname
- The Golden Girl
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Encyclopedic overview
Olympic Games
1956 Melbourne100 metres
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Betty Cuthbert” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.