Kate Anderson-Richardson

Kate Suzanne Richardson is an Australian athlete, who represented her native country at the 1996 [Summer Olympics] and 2000 Summer Olympics in the women's 5000 metres making the Semi Finals. Richardson was a finalist in the 1997 World Championship 5000m, and also represented Australia in the 1999 World Championships plus numerous World Cross-Country Championships.
In November 1999 she married fellow runner Jason A. Richardson. She is a two-time national champion in the women's 5000 metres and former Australian record holder over 1500m and 5000m.
Richardson won a gold medal at the 1998 [Commonwealth Games], in the 5000m event, after suffering a severe kidney infection which had led her to be bedridden less than a year earlier.