Terri Cater
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Terri Anne Cater {{post-nominals|country=AUS|OAM}} ({{nee|Wangman}}; born 25 September 1956) is an Australian former sprinter and middle-distance runner. She was Australian women's 400 metres champion in 1981 and 800 metres champion in 1981 and 1982.{{cite web |title=Australian Track & Field Championships 1980–81 |url=http://athhistory.sportstg.com/aust_tf/tf_w_1980-81.htm |website=Australian Athletics Historical Results |accessdate=12 June 2018}}
Commonwealth Games
Cater competed at two Commonwealth Games: the 1974 British Commonwealth Games in Christchurch, New Zealand where she won a silver medal as part of the women's 4 × 400 metres relay team. Eight years later, she competed in the 1982 Commonwealth Games in Brisbane, Australia where she placed 4th in the final of the women's 800 metres.{{cite web |title=Terri Anne Cater |url=https://thecgf.com/results/athletes/40783 |publisher=Commonwealth Games Federation |accessdate=12 June 2018}}
1976 Olympic selection
In March 1976, Cater (as Terri Wangman) was selected for the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, however there was subsequent controversy as she was selected over Barbara Wilson of Queensland, who ranked 4th in Australian athletic rankings compared to Wangman's 19th. Queensland MP Des Frawley raised the issue in the Queensland Parliament, asserting that the selection panel was "dominated by Victorians" whose "rotten, unprincipled actions" would deprive Australia of a certain medal win in Montreal.{{cite web |title=Parliamentary Debates (Hansard) |url=https://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/documents/hansard/1976/1976_03_25.pdf |publisher=Queensland Legislative Assembly |accessdate=12 June 2018}} Selector Paul Jenes responded that the selected athlete would have to cover both relay events (4 × 100 and 4 × 400), and that Wangman as the 400 metre specialist would have a better chance than Wilson.{{cite news |title=Rotten, says Queensland |url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/123575184/ |accessdate=12 June 2018 |work=The Sydney Morning Herald |date=26 March 1976}} In April, the men's and women's head selectors met with the Australian Olympic Federation justification committee, where they acknowledged they should have ranked the relay teams rather than individual runners, and Wilson was added to the Olympic team. This lowered Wangman's chances of competing by half, and she did not end up competing in Montreal.{{cite news |last1=Capp |first1=Al |title=Oversight caused Olympic mixup |url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/123576480/ |work=The Sydney Morning Herald |date=6 April 1976}}
Other
Cater won the British WAAA Championships title in the 800 metres event at the 1982 WAAA Championships.{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0004941/19820801/583/0027 |title=It's agony for Sonia |work=Sunday Express |date=1 August 1982 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription |access-date=15 March 2025}}{{cite web|url=https://www.nuts.org.uk/Champs/AAA/index.htm |title=AAA, WAAA and National Championships Medallists |website=National Union of Track Statisticians |access-date=15 March 2025}}{{cite web|url=http://www.gbrathletics.com/bc/waaa.htm |title=AAA Championships (women) |website=GBR Athletics |access-date=15 March 2025 }}
Personal life
Outside of her athletics career, Cater was a police officer with Victoria Police.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article126873255 |title=ATHLETICS Cater aims at fast race |newspaper=The Canberra Times |volume=56 |issue=16,918 |location=Australian Capital Territory, Australia |date=22 January 1982 |accessdate=12 June 2018 |page=18 |via=National Library of Australia}}
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Category:Australian female sprinters
Category:Australian female middle-distance runners
Category:Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Australia
Category:Recipients of the Medal of the Order of Australia
Category:Australian police officers
Category:Women police officers
Category:20th-century police officers
Category:Commonwealth Games medallists in athletics
Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games
Category:21st-century Australian sportswomen
Category:Medallists at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games
Category:Place of birth missing (living people)