Cathy Freeman's 400-metre Olympic gold voted Australia's greatest sporting moment

Sprinter's medal moment wins inaugural Guardian poll with more than twice the number of reader votes than runner-up See how the top 10 polled Cathy Freeman's Sydney 2000 gold was a moment of ecstasy at a time of national reckoning Cathy Freeman's 400-metre dash to gold while carrying the weight of a nation at the Sydney 2000 Olympics has been voted the winner of the inaugural Guardian poll of Australia's greatest sporting moments. Freeman's achievement attracted more than twice the number of rea...