Rhydian Cowley

Rhydian Cowley
	Rhydian Cowley (Korzeniowski Warsaw Race Walk Cup 2024)
Personal information
Nationality	Australian
Born	4 January 1991 (age 33); Melbourne, Victoria
Sport
Sport	Race Walking
Event(s)	50 kilometres race walk; 20 kilometres race walk
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)	10 kilometres race walk: 39:14; 20 kilometres race walk: 1:20:19; 50 kilometres race walk: 3:52:01

Rhydian Cowley (born 4 January 1991) is an Australian race walker born in Glen Waverley, Victoria who specialises in the 50 kilometres race walk and 20 kilometres race walk.^[1] Cowley competed in the 2013 World Championships in Moscow and the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.^[2] For both of his major championship competitions, Cowley qualified in the 20 kilometres race walk.^[3] He has also competed at a Summer Universiade, five World Race Walking Cups, and a World Junior Championships.^[3] In 2021, he competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo where he finished in 8th in the men's 50 kilometres walk with a new personal best time of 3:52.01 just 113 seconds behind the eventual winner Dawid Tomala of Poland.^[4]^[5]

^ "Cowley / Profile World Athletics". Archived from the original on 11 May 2016. Retrieved 26 July 2016.
^ Turner, David (20 June 2016). "Rhydian Cowley heads for 20km road walk in Rio with a spring in his step as team mate Jared Tallent receives his long overdue London gold medal". The Herald Sun. Archived from the original on 2 October 2018. Retrieved 26 July 2016.
^ ^a ^b "Rhydian Cowley". athhistory.imgstg.com. Australian Athletics Historical Results. Archived from the original on 19 August 2016. Retrieved 26 July 2016.
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^ "Athletics COWLEY Rhydian - Tokyo 2020 Olympics". olympics.com. Retrieved 29 September 2021.