Sarah Tait
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| Birth name | Sarah Anne Outhwaite | |||||||||||||||||||||
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23 January 1983 Perth, Western Australia |
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| Died | 3 March 2016 (aged 33) Melbourne, Victoria |
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| Residence | Melbourne | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 180 cm (5 ft 11 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 70 kg (150 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Rowing | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | Pair – Women (2-) Coxless Pair – Women |
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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.
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.
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.
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