Olivia Sandery

Olivia Sandery (born 22 January 2003) is an Australian race walker. She won the 10,000 m walk at the 2022–23 Australian Athletics Championships. In 2024, she won the national title over 35 km.^[1]

Olivia Sandery

Personal information
Nationality	Australian
Born	(2003-01-22) 22 January 2003 (age 22) Adelaide, Australia
Sport
Sport	Athletics
Event	Race walking
Medal record World University Games 2025 Bochum 20 km walk team

Career

She is from South Australia and coached by Jarred Tallent. She set a 10 km personal best of 45:24 in January 2022.^[2] In March 2022, she won silver in the women's U20 10 km team walk at the 2022 World Athletics Race Walking Team Championships in Muscat, Oman.^[3] In May 2022, she finished third in the 35 km walk at the Oceania Open 35 km Race Walking Championships.^[4]

She finished fourth at the 2022 World Athletics U20 Championships in the women's 10,000 metres walk in Cali, Colombia. She set a personal best of 45:19.63 in the 10,000 m at Supernova #1 in January 2023, before setting a new South Australian record of 21:09.08 over 5000 m in March 2023.^[5]

She won the 10,000 m walk at the 2022–23 Australian Athletics Championships in Brisbane in 2023.^[6] She competed at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in the women's 20 kilometres walk in Budapest in August 2023.^[7]

In February 2024, she finished third at the Oceanian & Australian 20 km Race Walking Championships over 20 km.^[8] She competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics in the women's 20 kilometres walk.^[9] In December 2024, she set an Australian record time of 2:45:31 in winning the 35 km national race walking championship.^[10]