Jemima Montag
Personal information
Born (1998-02-15) 15 February 1998
East Melbourne, Victoria
Height159 cm (5 ft 3 in)[1]
Weight50 kg (110 lb)[1]
Sport
SportRacewalking
Event20 km walk
Coached byBrent Vallance
Achievements and titles
Personal best20 km walk: 1:28:00
Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing  Australia
World Championships
Silver medal – second place2023 Budapest20 km walk
Commonwealth Games
Gold medal – first place2018 Gold Coast20 km walk
Gold medal – first place2022 Birmingham10000m walk

Jemima Montag (born 15 February 1998) is an Australian racewalker. She came sixth in the final of the Women's 20 km walk in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics in a time of 1:30.39.[2]

Montag studies science at the University of Melbourne and works at a company that delivers food to underprivileged families,[3]

Montag is coached by former racewalker Brent Vallance.[1]

Early years

Montag was born in East Melbourne, Victoria, and is Jewish.[4] She began taking part in Little Athletics when she was seven,[5] encouraged by her mother, who was herself a hurdler. She was inspired by Cathy Freeman, as well as her contemporaries Regan Lamble and Steven Solomon.[1] A Jewish Australian, at age 15 was recognised for her wins at the state and national championships with the Australian 2013 Outstanding Jewish Junior Sportswoman of the Year Award.[4] She made her first impact with a win in the under-20 section at the 2014 Oceania Race Walking Championships.[6] A global medal came later that May, as she placed twelfth in the 10 kilometres walk at the 2014 IAAF World Race Walking Cup and shared in the team bronze with Clara Smith and Elizabeth Hosking.[7] She graduated high school from Wesley College in 2016.[5]

Achievements

Montag earned selection for Australia at the 2018 Commonwealth Games through a silver medal performance behind Beki Smith at the 2018 Australia and Oceania Race Walking Championships, setting a personal best of 1:31:26 hours in her second ever competitive outing over the 20 km distance.[8]

Montag was the gold medalist of the 20 kilometers race walk at the 2018 Commonwealth Games.[5] She had been leading alongside fellow Australian Claire Tallent, but was assured of the win when Tallent was disqualified in the final stage of the race.[9][10]

At the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Montag won silver in the women's 20km walk, 25 seconds behind the winner.[11]

International competitions

YearCompetitionVenuePositionEventNotes
2014 Oceania Race Walking Championships Hobart, Australia 1st 10 km walk (junior) 47:00
World Race Walking Cup Taicang, China 12th 10 km walk (junior) 47:34
3rd Team 20 pts
2018 Oceania Race Walking Championships Adelaide Australia 2nd 20 km walk 1:31:26
Commonwealth Games Gold Coast, Australia 1st 20 km walk 1:32:50
2019 Oceania Race Walking Championships Townsville, Australia 1st 10 km walk 43:50:84
Summer Universiade Naples, Italy 2nd 20 km walk 1:33:57
World Championships Doha, Qatar 10th 20 km walk 1:36:54
Australian 50 km Race Walking Championships[12] Melbourne, Australia 2nd 20 km walk 1:37:22[13]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Jemima Montag. Commonwealth Games 2018. Retrieved 2018-04-08.
  2. ↑ "Athletics MONTAG Jemima - Tokyo 2020 Olympics". olympics.com. Retrieved 29 September 2021.
  3. ↑ "Jemima Montag". Australian Olympic Committee. Retrieved 29 September 2021.
  4. 1 2 "Mac Vic honours top sports stars, volunteers".
  5. 1 2 3 Website, Wesley College. "Going for Gold". Wesley website. Retrieved 26 November 2022.
  6. ↑ Montags amaze, Solomon sublime. JewishNews (2014-02-12). Retrieved on 2018-04-08.
  7. ↑ BRONZE FOR GLORY. Athletics ACT (2014-05-04). Retrieved 2018-04-08.
  8. ↑ Montag’s moment: Teen qualifies for Commonwealth Games. Jewish News (2018-02-15). Retrieved 2018-04-08.
  9. ↑ Jemima Montag wins 20km walk; Claire Tallent disqualified. ESPN (2018-04-08). Retrieved 2018-04-08.
  10. ↑ Gullan, Scott (2018-04-08). Claire Tallent disqualified while leading women’s 20km race walk, Jemima Montag claims gold. News.au. Retrieved 2018-04-08.
  11. ↑ "Australian walker Jemima Montag claims silver medal at World Athletics Championships in Budapest". ABC Australia. Retrieved 20 August 2023.
  12. ↑ "2019 Australian 50km Race Walking Championships". Athletics Australia. Retrieved 2 December 2019.
  13. ↑ "2018 Australian 50km Road Walking Championships Results" (PDF). Athletics Australia. Retrieved 2 December 2019.
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