Raelene Boyle

Raelene Boyle AM, MBE ( Raelene Ann Boyle, born 24 July 1951 in Melbourne, Victoria) is an Australian track and field athlete and Olympic silver medalist.

Her international sport career began with the take part in the Summer Olympic Games in Mexico in 1968, where she won the silver medal in the 200 -meter run behind the Polish Irena Szewińska and before her compatriot Jenny Lamy. In the 100 -meter run it ranked 4th

In 1970, she won a total of three gold over 100 m, 200 m and the 4 × 100 m relay at the British Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh.

In her second Olympic participation at the Games in Munich in 1972, she won the silver medal in the 100 m race behind the German Renate Stecher and before the Cuban Silvia Chivas and the silver medal in the 200 m race behind Renate Stecher and before Irena Szewińska.

In 1974 she won at the British Commonwealth Games in Christchurch again three times in total gold in the 100 m, 200 m and the 4 × 100 m relay; at the Commonwealth Games 1978, silver over 100 meters. In the Commonwealth Games 1982 in Brisbane, she won gold in the 400 -meter run and gold with the team in the 4 × 400 m relay.

After she finished her sporting career without being able to make their dream of an Olympic gold medal true, and worked as a landscape gardener. 1996 was diagnosed with breast cancer Boyle. In 1998 she became a founding member of the Sporting Chance Cancer Foundation, which raises funds for the fight against cancer.

At the Olympic Games in Sydney in 2000, she starred opposite Betty Cuthbert, Shirley Strickland de la Hunty, Dawn Fraser, Shane Gould and Debbie Flintoff -King is one of six outstanding women of the Australian sporting history that the torch with the Olympic Flame through the round of the Olympic Stadium wore before Cathy Freeman lit the flame.