In celebration of International Women’s Day, Income Solutions is excited to host “An Evening with Raelene Boyle”

Raelene is recognised as one of Australia’s greatest track and field athletes, winning Seven Commonwealth Gold and three Olympic Silver medals. Raelene was unlucky to miss out on the ultimate accolade – Olympic Gold.

Raelene was just beaten for Gold at the Munich Olympics in 1972 by East German Renate Stecher, a woman later caught up in the drug controversy surrounding all East German athletes. At the 1976 Montreal Olympics, Raelene was disqualified for 2 false starts.  Later film footage show that she had not jumped the gun on the first start.  Despite injury and disappointment, Raelene kept running. In 1982 she finished her athletic career in a high with a gold medal at the Brisbane Commonwealth Games before a packed home crowd.

Since completing her illustrious  track and field career Raelene has overcome many other challenges. In 1996 she was diagnosed with breast cancer and then a few years later with ovarian cancer. Raelene will be joining us to talk about her sporting career as well as fights with breast and ovarian cancer.