Tim Seaman

{{short description|American racewalker}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=April 2015}}

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| image =SeamanTrials.jpg

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| caption = Seaman at the 2012 US Olympic Trials 50 km racewalk in Santee, California

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| fullname = Timothy M. Seaman

| residence = San Diego, California

|birth_date ={{birth date and age|1972|05|14}}

| birth_place = North Kingstown, Rhode Island, U.S.

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| height = {{convert|1.68|m|ftin|abbr=on}}

| weight = {{convert|64|kg|lb|abbr=on}}

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| sport =Race walking

| club =New York Athletic Club

| University =University of Wisconsin-Parkside (four-time NAIA race walk champion)

| retired =

| olympics = 2000, 2004

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Timothy "Tim" M. Seaman (born May 14, 1972) is an American race walker who competed at the 2000 and 2004 Olympics.[https://web.archive.org/web/20200418023519/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/se/tim-seaman-1.html Tim Seaman]. sports-reference

Seaman made a habit of winning the 5000 metres racewalk at the USA Indoor Track and Field Championships. He won the event 13-times winning consecutive years from 1998 to 2007, and in 2009, 2010 and 2013. His 13 USA Indoor titles rank highest in the sport's history. Seaman is also seven-time USA 20 km champion, winning in 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2009 and 2014. [http://www.usatf.org/News/0-(4).aspx?feed=news] On April 20, 2004, he set the still standing American record in the 10-km walk at 39:22.7 in Storetveitmarsje, Norway.{{cite web|url=http://www.usatf.org/statistics/records/view.asp?division=american&location=road&age=open&sport=RW |title=Statistics – Records |publisher=USATF |date=January 17, 2012 |access-date=March 2, 2013}}

As a collegiate athlete, Seaman was a four-time National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) race walk champion while competing for the University of Wisconsin-Parkside. [http://www.usatf.org/News/0-(4).aspx?feed=news]

Seaman is currently the cross country, women's track and field and distance running coach for Cuyamaca College. His wife Rachel Seaman is also an Olympic racewalker.