Jemima Montag

2022 - 8 - 6

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Commonwealth walk champion Montag inspired by Holocaust ... (FRANCE 24)

Australian race walker Jemima Montag says she draws on the strength of her late grandmother, who was a Holocaust survivor, after winning her second ...

"In some letters and journal entries, she wrote about just trying to make it through the next hour and next day, and meet her dad at the gate with a piece of bread." "To uncover the amount of grit, perseverance and mindfulness and presence that they had to have," she said. “What I take from that is, in a race, it is one kilometre at a time and not thinking about the finish line," she said.

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From Auschwitz to a gold medal: Montag's incredible long walk to ... (The Sydney Morning Herald)

Australian race walker Jemima Montag won another race-walking gold, inspired every step of the way by her grandparents, who survived the horrors of the ...

She had lapped nearly every other competitor and allowed herself the chance to enjoy the crowd and the celebration in the final lap. “In some of her love letters and journal entries she wrote about just trying to make it through the next hour, the next day, hoping to meet her dad at the gate with a piece of bread. We’ll be live blogging the action from 4pm-10am daily. Every step of her 10-kilometre race-walking victory, Jemima Montag had a small gold bracelet clinking away on her wrist against her smartwatch. They married, she had my dad and his brother. “So she is a widow, she has lost her sister, she has lost everyone except her father, and she is living in Paris with her six-month-old baby girl, and she receives this letter from Melbourne saying, ‘Hi Judith, my name is Richard, you have got no reason to trust me, but I heard from a friend that we went through similar camps and you are now a widow.

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Jemima Montag inspired by late grandmother in 10000m race walk ... (ABC News)

Key points: Jemima Montag made it back-to-back Commonwealth Games gold medals in the race walking; Montag took inspiration from her grandmother, whose Holocaust ...

"This is fun, and this is something I choose to do, and yes, it's hard. "I didn't really show what I could do at all. I'm still gonna come out and perform every time. And I know it's with me now." "Just being able to come out of the door and see everyone cheering and being fully involved in the para athletes that were coming out in the line, it was absolutely spectacular. I'm world champion, but who cares. And they said, 'we're getting through this together or not at all.' "I didn't turn up and I didn't do what I was supposed to do. I was not jumping how I can and how I usually do and so it's just really frustrating," she said. Eleanor Patterson was "disappointed" and "frustrated" after her silver medal in the women's high jump. "And I think what I take from that is in a race, it's one kilometre at a time, it's one step at a time, not thinking about the finish line." "In some of her love letters and journal entries, she wrote about just trying to make it through the next hour the next day, just hoping to meet her dad at the gate with a piece of bread," Montag shared after the race.

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Grandmother's spirit drives walker Montag (PerthNow)

Jemima Montag drew on the remarkable memory of her late grandmother, a Holocaust survivor, as she won gold in the women's 10000m walk in Birmingham.

"The love story, which is really beautiful, is that the war finished, everyone fled to different spots - he fled to Melbourne and she fled to Paris," Montag said. "This (race walking) is fun and this is something I choose to do and yes, it's hard, but someone just two generations ago had that level of strength and I know it's with me now." "She and her sister took their waist bands and tied their wrists together and they said 'we're getting through this together or not at all.' "In some of her love letters and journal entries she wrote about just trying to make it through the next hour, the next day, just hoping to meet her dad at the gate with a piece of bread," Montag said. "Stealing scraps of food, running from one line to the other if it meant not being put to the gas chamber, and then sticking by the rules, when it was the right thing to do so." The bracelet was grandmother Judith's necklace that she had cut into three for Montag and her two sisters two years before she died.

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