Jared Tallent

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Jared Tallent (2009)

Jared Tallent (born October 17, 1984 in Ballarat ) is an Australian walker .

Act

At the World Athletics Championships in 2005 , he finished 18th in the 20 km walk . Over the same distance he won the bronze medal at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne.

In 2008 he set his best time over 20 km with 1:19:41 h and achieved his greatest successes to date when he won the bronze medal over 20 km and the silver medal over 50 km at the Olympic Games in Beijing , only one second slower .

In 2010 Tallent won the gold medal over 20 km at the Commonwealth Games . At the 2011 World Championships in Daegu he finished second in the 50 km walk after the conviction of the Russian doping offender Sergei Bakulin . In London , he triumphed over 50 km at the 2012 Olympic Games and became Olympic champion. He set a personal best with 3:36:53 h. The Russian Sergei Kirdjapkin , who was originally the winner, was subsequently stripped of the title because of doping . On June 17, 2016, Tallent was able to receive the gold medal. At the 2015 World Championships in Beijing , he won the silver medal over 50 km.

Life

Jared Tallent is 1.78 m tall and weighs 60 kg. He is studying at the University of Canberra with the aim of becoming a PE teacher . In 2008 Tallent married the Australian walker Claire Woods .

Web links

Commons : Jared Tallent  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Russian athletes (athletics) recognized ineligible Rusada January 20, 2015 ( Memento of February 5, 2015 in the Internet Archive ); Russian walkers have to hand in medals faz.net March 24, 2016
  2. Russians strike back with supreme discipline! In: HDsports.at. August 11, 2012, accessed March 7, 2014 .
  3. Tallent to receive London 2012 Olympic race walking gold on June 17 in Melbourne insidethegames.biz May 9, 2016
  4. Jens Weinreich : IAAF decision: A holiday for sport. Spiegel Online, June 17, 2016, accessed on the same day
  5. ^ Forgotten Tallent show hits Berlin. In: Brisbane Times . August 14, 2009, archived from the original on March 16, 2014 ; Retrieved February 7, 2014 .