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| Nationality | British | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 20 September 1999 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event | Javelin | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Blackheath and Bromley Harriers AC | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | Javelin: 59.76m (Chorzow, 2023) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Rebekah Walton (born 20 September 1999) is a British track and field athlete. She is a multiple-time national champion in the javelin. [1]
From Etwall in Derbyshire, she attended John Port Spencer Academy, and Repton School. Walton initially only started athletics at Burton Athletics Club to improve her netball skills. She is a student of Mechanical Engineering at Loughborough University. [2] [3]
A Blackheath & Bromley athlete, she joined the England Athletics pathway at sixteen years-old and is coached by David Turner. [4]
Walton threw a new personal distance of 54.03m to become the British javelin throw champion [5] after winning the British Championship for the first time, in June 2021. [6] [7] She was subsequently selected for the 2021 European Athletics U20 Championships, taking place in Tallinn, Estonia, in July 2021. [8] At the event, she set a new personal best distance of 54.27m and ended up finishing in fifth place overall. [9] [10]
In 2022, she retained her British national title and represented Britain at the 2022 European Athletics Championships in Munich. [11]
She was selected for the British team for the 2023 European Athletics Team Championships held in Chorzów, Poland in June 2023. [12] At the event she recorded two-metre personal best distance of 59.76m and finished in the bronze medal position. [13]
In July 2023, Walton clinched a third-consecutive national title at the British Championships held in Manchester. [14]
She won the Loughborough International with a throw of 59.26 metres in May 2024. [15] In June 2024, she retained her British national title in Manchester. [16] In November 2024, she was named by British Athletics on the Olympic Futures Programme for 2025. [17]
Walton threw 59.38 metres to win the Loughborough International in May 2025. [18] She was selected for the 2025 European Athletics Team Championships in Madrid in June 2025, throwing 58.63 metres to place fourth overall. [19] [20] On 3 August 2025, she retained her national title at the 2025 UK Athletics Championships in Birmingham with 58.44m. [21]
