Declan Tingay

Declan Tingay (born 6 February 1999) is an Australian racewalking athlete. He qualified to represent Australia at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo 2021,^[1] competing in the men's 20 kilometres walk. Tingay finished in 17th place with a time of 1:24.00 close to 3 minutes behind the eventual winner, Massimo Stano.^[2]

Early years[]

Tingay started walking when he was 9 months and never looked back. He started Little Athletics when he was 5 years of age. His parents encouraged him as they wanted to give him an opportunity to play sport and also the athletics club was the most local to them. He found that he was a good walker and was best over long distances Tingay became serious when he was under 14 and 4 years later he just missed the national under-18 5000m walk record by a second.^[3]

Achievements[]

Tingay took the Australian under-20 10,000m walk record when placed fourth at the 2018 World Junior U20 Championships. His time was 40:49.72. and he was second only to Nathan Deakes, but superior to Olympians Dane Bird-Smith, Jared Tallent, Nick A'Hern and Luke Adams at that championship.

In 2018 he won bronze as a member of the national under-20 team at the World Race Walking Championships in China. He was disqualified in his next international outing at the 2019 World University Games. However, in 2021 he smashed his PB for the 20 km walk and qualified for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.

Although self-coached, Tingay does work with Brent Valance. He is studying Sports Science & Exercise and Health at the University of Western Australia.^[3]

References[]

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