Walker Jemima Montag has pocketed Australia’s first medal at the athletics world championships in Budapest, claiming silver in the 20km race.
The 25-year-old Victorian was in the lead group throughout the opening 15km on a sunny Sunday morning in historic Heroes Square.
Eventual winner Maria Perez from Spain made the decisive break before the 16km mark and Montag was the only one who responded.
Perez surged away to win gold in one hour 26 minutes 51 seconds, well ahead of Montag (1:27:16) and bronze medallist Antonella Palmisano from Italy (1:27:26).
It made Montag the first Australian women’s walker since Kerry Saxby-Junna in 1999 to finish on the podium at a world championships.
She is also a two-time Commonwealth champion who has been steadily building up to this breakthrough performance on the global stage, having finished sixth at the Tokyo Olympics and fourth at last year’s world championships in Eugene, Oregon.
A day earlier, Declan Tingay finished eighth in the men’s 20km walk.
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