She began her 2011 season with a husband and wife double at the Australian 20 km walk championships, taking the women's title while her husband won on the men's side.[4]
In March 2012, Woods achieved a lifetime best of 1:28:53 in the 20 km walk.[5] She then achieved the 1st position in both the 5000m and 10 km events at the Oceania Championships.[citation needed]
Woods retired from international competition in 2012 and coached her husband Jared Tallent to a medal at every major championship, culminating in a silver medal in the 50 km walk at the 2016 Rio Olympics.[6]
After a hiatus from competition, Woods came 43rd in the Women's 20 km walk at the 2017 World Championships in Athletics, just eleven weeks after giving birth to her son.[7]
Weeks after her disqualification, she finished third at the World Athletics Race Walking Team Championships in Taicang, China in the women's 50 km walk in an Oceania and Australian record of 4:09:33.[9][10]
In January 2019, Woods won the Women's 50 km walk at the USA National Championships in Santee, California in a time of 4:12:44.[11][12] This performance, when combined with her Oceania record, saw Woods become the world's number one ranked 50 km walker for four weeks in 2019.[11]
In 2019 Woods was one of five female international race walkers that failed in an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) to have the Women's 50 km walk included in the Tokyo Olympics program.[13]
Personal life
Weeks after the Beijing Olympics (in August 2008), Woods married international racewalker and Olympic gold medallist Jared Tallent in Walkerville, South Australia,[14][15] and for some time, changed her name to Claire Tallent. They had two children, born in 2013 and 2017 by IVF.[16]
They were later divorced,[citation needed] and Woods reverted to her birth name.[11]
^"Jada Alberts, Awarded"(PDF). MMCOSA Old Scholars Newsletter (1, 2014): 5. 2014. Jada attended Mary MacKillop College from 1996 to 2001, and in August 2013, was announced as the winner of The Balnaves Foundation Indigenous Playwright's Award 2013
^ ab"Claire Tallent". Australian Olympic Committee. Retrieved 2 August 2022.