Birth name Sarah Outhwaite Name Sarah Tait Spouse Bill Tait (m. 2008) Residence Melbourne, Victoria Role Olympian Parents Simon Outhwaite | Country Australia Height 1.80 m Children Leila Tait Sport Rowing Weight 70 kg | |
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Born 23 January 1983 ( 1983-01-23 ) Perth, Western Australia Event(s) Pair – Women (2-)
Coxless Pair – Women Similar People Kate Hornsey, Juliette Haigh, Rebecca Scown, Heather Stanning, Helen Glover | ||
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Sarah Anne Tait (née Outhwaite; 23 January 1983 – 3 March 2016) was an Australian world champion, three-time Olympian and Olympic-medal winning rower. She was the first mother to represent Australia in rowing at an Olympic level, having returned to international competition following the birth of her daughter.
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- 2011 world rowing championships kate hornsey and sarah tait
- Early life
- Career
- Family
- Death
- References
2011 world rowing championships kate hornsey and sarah tait
Early life
Tait was born in Perth, Western Australia, one of four children of Simon and Barbara Outhwaite. She was educated at St Hilda's Anglican School for Girls in Perth. She began rowing in 1997, at the age of 14. Tait's first rowing success was in 2000, aged 17, when she won a silver medal in the Junior Women’s Four at the World Rowing Junior Championships in Zagreb, Croatia.
Career
Tait competed at the Summer Olympics three times, in the women's eights at the 2004 and 2008 games and in the women's coxless pairs at the 2012 Olympic Games in London, where she won a silver medal with Kate Hornsey. At the 500m mark of their race, Tait and Hornsey were in fourth place, but moved up to third place at the 1000m mark. In the last 500m of their race, the pair passed New Zealand's world champions Rebecca Scown and Juliette Haigh, to finish second behind Britain's Heather Stanning and Helen Glover.
Tait won gold in the women's eights at the 2005 World Rowing Championships in Gifu, Japan, along with a silver in the coxless pairs (with Natalie Bale). She also secured a bronze in the coxless pairs at the 2011 World Rowing Championships in Lake Bled.
Tait captained the Australian women's rowing team at the 2008 and 2012 Olympic Games, and the 2010 and 2011 World Rowing Championships.
Three months after the 2008 Olympics, Tait became pregnant with her first child. As she was determined to compete in the 2012 Olympics, she continued to train up until the last three weeks of pregnancy, and returned to her training schedule five months after giving birth. At around this time, Rowing Australia changed their policy on family visits to athletes, enabling children to visit their parents while training and competing; Tait was credited with inspiring this change.
Tait announced her retirement from competitive rowing on 26 February 2014, as she had been diagnosed with cervical cancer after the birth of her second child eleven months earlier. Although she had initially returned to rowing after undergoing chemotherapy and radiation treatment, she was later advised to retire from the sport to undergo further treatment.
Family
Tait was married to national rowing coach Bill Tait and was a second cousin of rower David Crawshay. She was a mother. Her father, Simon Outhwaite, was an Australian rules footballer for South Fremantle Football Club.
Death
Tait died on 3 March 2016, aged 33, in Melbourne, Victoria. She had been diagnosed with cervical cancer in 2013.