Rachel Seaman born in Kapuskasing, Ontario is a Canadian race walker. She began race walking at age 14 but didn’t decided to focus on the event until the age of 18. A year later she won the 2005 Pan American Race Walking Cup Junior championship. Her first experience internationally at the senior level was the 2006 IAAF World Race Walking Cup, which is where she met future husband, American race walker and coach Tim Seaman.
Rachel set her first Canadian record in the 20 km walk at the 2011 USATF Masters Championships, at the St. Patrick’s Day 20K in Huntington Beach, California. Not only has she improved her personal best, she has improved the record several times. Her current record is 1:29:54, set on March 15, 2015 was at the Asian Race Walking Championships in Nomi, Japan. She has also added Canadian Indoor records in the 1 mile walk 6:17.29 and 3000 metres walk 12:23.84.
She competed in the 20 kilometres walk event at the 2012 Summer Olympics and will again to return to the Olympic stage in Rio of 2016.
Rachel was recently interviewed for the SISU Girls podcast where she talks about race walking, training being a mom and her plans for Rio 2016.