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Isaac Beacroft

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Isaac Beacroft
Personal information
NationalityAustralian
Born (2007-07-18) 18 July 2007 (age 19)
Sport
Country Australia
SportAthletics
Event
Race walking
Achievements and titles
Personal bests5000 m: 19:23.96 (Sydney, 2024) AU20R
10,000 m: 38:02.68 (Sydney, 2025) WU20R
Road
10 km 39:56 (Antalya, 2024) AU20R
Medal record
Men's athletics
Representing  Australia
Commonwealth Games
Gold medal – first place2026 Glasgow10000 m walk
World University Games
Silver medal – second place2025 Bochum20 km walk (team)
World Team Championships (U20)
Gold medal – first place2024 Antalya10 km walk
Silver medal – second place2026 Brasilia10 km walk
Bronze medal – third place2024 Antalya10 km (team)
Bronze medal – third place2026 Brasilia10 km (team)

Isaac Beacroft (born 18 July 2007) is an Australian race walker. He is the under-20 world record holder in the 10,000 metres race walk. He won the gold medal in the 10,000 metres race walk at the 2026 Commonwealth Games.

Beacroft also won gold in the in the U20 men's 10 km race at the 2024 World Athletics Race Walking Team Championships, and silver in the individual, and bronze in the team event, at the same championships in 2026.[1]

Early life

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Based in Blacktown, New South Wales, he is coached by his father David who was a junior race walker.[2] He attended Oakhill College in Sydney. As well as pursuing athletics he was a member of Australian rules football club Greater Western Sydney Giants academy.[3]

Career

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He set the fastest 5000 m time by an under-17 race walker in world history in December 2023 with a time of 19:31.21, just 1.07 seconds short of breaking the under-18 world record.[3][4]

He won gold in the U20 men's 10 km race at the 2024 World Athletics Race Walking Team Championships in Antalya, Turkey, in April 2024, setting an Oceanian U20 record time of 39:56.[5] He was still 16 years-old at the time and it was his first ever competition outside of Australia and only his second ever race on the road.[2][6] He was also the youngest winner since Colombia's Eider Arevalo in 2010.[7] He finished fourth on the track in the 10,000 m race walk at the 2024 World Athletics U20 Championships in Lima, Peru, in August 2024, setting an Oceanian U20 record of 39:36.39.[8]

He was awarded a Sport Australia Hall of Fame awards scholarship in September 2024.[9] He won the Australian U20 10,000 m title in April 2025.[10] He was selected for the 2025 Summer World University Games in Bochum, and recorded a personal best of 1:22.37 to finish 10th in the 20 km road walk.[11]

In December 2025, he set a new world under-20 record at the New South Wales 10,000m Race Walk Championships, winning in a time of 38:02.68. The time also broke the Australian Open record previously held by Declan Tingay.[12][13] The following month, he won the Australian Athletics 10,000m Race Walking Championships.[14] In April, he won the silver medal in the individual U20 race and bronze in the team event at the 2026 World Athletics Race Walking Team Championships in Brazil.[15] On 31 July, he won the gold medal in the 10,000 metres race walk at the 2026 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland ahead of Stephen Ndangiri of Kenya, with the race coming down to the final two hundred metres.[16][17]

References

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  1. ↑ "Isaac Beacroft". World Athletics. Retrieved 12 February 2025.
  2. 1 2 "From Antalya to Lima for rising race walk star Beacroft". World Athletics. 19 May 2024. Retrieved 12 February 2025.
  3. 1 2 Gates, Zachary (12 January 2024). "EXCLUSIVE: Aussie teen prodigy parks AFL dream to go all in on athletics after shredding record books". Nine.com.au. Retrieved 12 February 2025.
  4. ↑ "BRILLIANT BEACROFT BLASTS THE BOOKS". Athletics.com.au. 8 December 2023. Retrieved 12 February 2025.
  5. ↑ "Beacroft blazes to U20 men's 10km title in Antalya". World Athletics. 21 April 2024. Retrieved 12 February 2025.
  6. ↑ "Isaac Beacroft Creates History at World Athletics Race Walking Championships". Runnerstribe. 23 April 2024. Retrieved 12 February 2025.
  7. ↑ Fontaine, Angus (26 August 2024). "Torrie Lewis to Gout Gout: new generation fires Australia's athletics resurgence". The Guardian. Retrieved 12 February 2025.
  8. ↑ "Cherni and Baima claim world U20 race walk crowns in Lima". World Athletics. 30 August 2024. Retrieved 12 February 2025.
  9. ↑ "SPORT AUSTRALIA HALL OF FAME AWARDS SCHOLARSHIPS TO FUTURE STARS OF AUSTRALIAN ATHLETICS". Athletics.com.au. 17 September 2024. Retrieved 12 February 2025.
  10. ↑ "GOUT GOES SUB-10 TWICE AS LOW AND LANGDON SHATTER WORLD RECORDS". Athletics.com.au. 10 April 2025. Retrieved 10 April 2025.
  11. ↑ "GOLDEN FINAL DAY SEALS HISTORIC WORLD UNIVERSITY GAMES CAMPAIGN". Athletics.com.au. 28 July 2025. Retrieved 28 July 2025.
  12. ↑ "BEACROFT OBLITERATES WORLD UNDER 20 RECORD". nswis.com.au. 12 December 2025. Retrieved 16 December 2025.
  13. ↑ "Ratified: world records for Fisher, Koech and Beacroft". World Athletics. 2 February 2026. Retrieved 3 February 2026.
  14. ↑ Moorhouse, Lachlan (26 January 2026). "MYERS LEADS WORLD-LEADING AUSTRALIANS IN EARLY 2026 FRENZY". Athletics.com.au. Retrieved 28 January 2026.
  15. ↑ "Pu dominates U20 men's race in Brasilia". World Athletics. 12 April 2026. Retrieved 12 April 2026.
  16. ↑ "GEORGIA HUNTER BELL STORMS TO GLASGOW GLORY". Athletics Weekly. 31 July 2026. Retrieved 31 July 2026.
  17. ↑ Moorhouse, Lachlan (31 July 2026). "BEACROFT MAKES GOLDEN COMMONWEALTH GAMES DEBUT". commonwealthgames.com.au. Retrieved 31 July 2026.
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