Rachel Tallent (born 20 February 1993) is a female

racewalker Racewalking, or race walking, is a long-distance discipline within the sport of athletics. Although a foot race, it is different from running in that one foot must appear to be in contact with the ground at all times. Race judges carefully asses ...

from

Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, sma ...

. She competed in the Women's 20 kilometres walk event at the

2015 World Championships in Athletics The 2015 IAAF World Championships ( zh, 第十五届世界田径锦标赛), the fifteenth edition of the IAAF World Championships, were held from 22 to 30 August at the National Stadium in Beijing, China. Forty-three nations won medals, 144 of ...

in Beijing, China. She also competed in the

2016 Olympics ) , nations = 207 (including IOA and EOR teams) , athletes = 11,238 , events = 306 in 28 sports (41 disciplines) , opening = 5 August 2016 , closing = 21 August 2016 , opened_by = Vice President Michel Temer , cauldron = Vanderlei Cordeiro ...

, while racing with a stress reaction in her left femur. She is the sister of Olympic Champion

Jared Tallent Jared Tallent OAM (born 17 October 1984) is an Australian race walker and Olympic gold medallist in the 50 km walk from London in 2012. He is a four-time Olympic medallist, three-time World Championship medallist and holds the current Oly ...

who was previously her coach.

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Australian female racewalkers Living people Place of birth missing (living people) 1993 births World Athletics Championships athletes for Australia Olympic athletes for Australia Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field) FISU World University Games bronze medalists for Australia Medalists at the 2015 Summer Universiade 21st-century Australian women 21st-century Australian people Australian Athletics Championships winners {{Australia-athletics-bio-stub

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