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Jemima Montag (born 15 February 1998) is an Australian Olympic racewalker. She is a two-time Commonwealth Games champion, won the silver medal in the 2023 World Athletics Championships, and she won the bronze medal in 20 km walk in the Paris 2024 Olympics.
She is representing Australia at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris in the Women's 20 kilometres walk on 1 August and the Mixed marathon walk relay on 7 August 2024.
Early and private life
Montag was born in East Melbourne, Victoria, and is Jewish. Her parents are Ray (whose parents are Holocaust survivors) and Amanda Montag, who met at the 1989 Maccabiah Games in Israel, where Ray was competing in cricket and Amanda was competing in the heptathlon for Australia. Montag's paternal grandmother, born Judyta Joachimsmann in the town of Wieliczka, Poland, was a survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp, and the Auschwitz death march. Montag plans to write a book about her grandmother's experiences.
Montag is studying for a postgraduate medical degree and a Master of Public Health at medical school at the University of Melbourne, where she previously earned a Bachelor of Science. She also works at a company that delivers food to underprivileged families,
Career
Montag is coached by former racewalker Brent “CV” Vallance.