13 Facts About Jared Tallent

Jared Tallent is one of six children and his parents own a potato farm near Ballarat.

Jared Tallent married race walker Claire Woods in Walkerville, South Australia in August 2008.

Jared Tallent finished third in the 20 km walk at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing to claim his first Olympic medal.

Jared Tallent received a silver medal for finishing second in the 50 km walk a week later, becoming the first Australian to win two athletic medals in the same Olympics since 1972 and the first male Australian to do so in 102 years.

At the 2012 London Olympics, Jared Tallent finished 7th in the 20 km walk.

Jared Tallent was initially awarded the silver medal, but on 24 March 2016 the Court of Arbitration for Sport disqualified all results, in the period from 20 August 2009 to 15 October 2012, of doper Sergey Kirdyapkin, who had been the first walker across the line.

Jared Tallent received his gold medal for the 2012 Olympics on 17 June 2016 in a special ceremony held in Melbourne.

At the 2016 IAAF World Race Walking Cup in Rome, Italy, Jared Tallent was initially awarded the silver medal behind Alex Schwazer, the 2008 Olympic gold medallist who had just returned from a four-year doping ban.

However, in August 2016 the Court of Arbitration for Sport disqualified Schwazer from 1 January 2016, due to him yet again failing a drug test and Jared Tallent was retrospectively awarded the gold medal.

Jared Tallent announced his retirement in March 2021 after failing to overcome a hamstring injury before the 2021 Australian Olympic selection trials.

Jared Tallent was coached by Brent Vallance at the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra between 2004 and 2012.

Jared Tallent made the following comments when interviewed during the ceremony:.

In May 2018 at an IAAF ceremony in Taicang, China, Jared Tallent was awarded two gold medals from the 2012 and 2016 IAAF World Race Walking Team Championships 50-kilometre race walk, following the confirmed positive doping test of the 2016 first-placed race walker Alex Schwazer and a previously confirmed series of abnormalities in the Athlete Biological Passport profile of 2012 first-placed Sergey Kirdyapkin and second-placed Igor Erokhin.