Raelene Ann Boyle AM, MBE (born 24 June 1951) is an Australian retired athlete, who represented Australia at three Olympic Games as a sprinter, winning three silver medals, and was named one of 100 National Living Treasures by the National Trust of Australia in 1998.

[14] At the 1976 Olympics in Montreal, Boyle finished fourth in the final of the 100-metre sprint,[15] but was disqualified from the 200-metre-race for making two false starts.

[20] Boyle was selected to compete in the 1980 Olympics in Moscow but eventually withdrew from the team for what she stated were personal reasons, during the long dispute within Australian sporting circles over whether to join the USA led boycott of the Games.

[21][22][23][24] Her final major competitive appearance was at the 1982 Commonwealth Games in Brisbane, where she won gold in the 400-metre sprint,[25] and silver in the 4 × 400-metre relay.

Many East German athletes were later revealed to have used anabolic steroids within a systematic state-sponsored doping program.