Michelle Freeman

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| caption = Michelle Freeman (lane 5) at the 1996 Summer Olympics 100-meter hurdles semi-final

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| birth_place = Saint Catherine Parish, Jamaica

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| sport = Track and field

| event = 100 meters hurdles, 100 meters

| collegeteam = University of Florida

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{{MedalSport | Women's athletics }}

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{{MedalCompetition | Olympic Games }}

{{MedalBronze | 1996 Atlanta | 4x100 m relay }}

{{MedalCompetition | World Championships }}

{{MedalBronze | 1993 Stuttgart | 4x100 m relay }}

{{MedalBronze | 1997 Athens | 100 m hurdles }}

{{MedalCompetition | Commonwealth Games }}

{{MedalGold | 1994 Victoria | 100 m hurdles }}

{{MedalCompetition | World Indoor Championships }}

{{MedalGold | 1997 Paris | 60 m hurdles }}

{{MedalCompetition | CARIFTA Games
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{{MedalGold | 1988 Kingston | 100 m }}

{{MedalGold | 1988 Kingston | 100 m hurdles }}

{{MedalBronze | 1987 Port of Spain | 100 m hurdles }}

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Michelle Freeman (born 5 May 1969) is a former Jamaican track & field athlete who was an Olympic bronze medalist.

Freeman was born in Saint Catherine Parish, Jamaica. In 1988, she was awarded the Austin Sealy Trophy for the most outstanding athlete of the 1988 CARIFTA Games.{{Citation

| title = Carifta Games Magazine, Part 2 | url = http://www.cariftagames2011.herobo.com/web_documents carifta_magazine_sm_part2.pdf | publisher = Carifta Games 2011 | access-date = 12 October 2011}}{{Citation| title =Carifta Games Magazine, Part 3| url =http://www.cariftagames2011.herobo.com/web_documents/carifta_magazine_sm_part3.pdf| publisher =Carifta Games 2011| access-date =12 October 2011| url-status =dead| archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20120425061211/http://www.cariftagames2011.herobo.com/web_documents/carifta_magazine_sm_part3.pdf| archive-date =25 April 2012| df =dmy-all}} She received an athletic scholarship to attend the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, where she was a member of the Florida Gators track and field team in National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) competition from 1989 to 1992. She was seven-time Southeastern Conference (SEC) champion and a member of the Gators' NCAA championship 4x400-meter relay team. Freeman received eight All-American honors, and still retains the Gators' team records in the 55-meter hurdles, 55-meter dash, 100-meter dash and 100-meter hurdles. She was inducted into the University of Florida Athletic Hall of Fame as a "Gator Great" in 2011.F Club, Hall of Fame, [http://www.gatorfclub.org/hall-of-fame/greats Gator Greats]. Retrieved 18 December 2014."[http://www.gatorzone.com/story.php?id=20351 Eight Gators To Be Inducted Into UF Athletic Hall of Fame Friday Night] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121003191413/http://www.gatorzone.com/story.php?id=20351 |date=3 October 2012 }}," GatorZone.com (8 April 2011). Retrieved 23 May 2011.

Freeman received the gold medal for winning the 100-meter hurdles at the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria, British Columbia. She competed for Jamaica at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, where she won the bronze medal with her teammates Juliet Cuthbert, Nikole Mitchell and Merlene Ottey in the women's 4x100-meter relay event.{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/fr/michelle-freeman-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418030852/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/fr/michelle-freeman-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2020 |title=Michelle Freeman |access-date=22 July 2011}} She was also a member of the Jamaican Olympic team in 1992 and 2000.