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Isaac Beacroft
Australian athlete (born 2007) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Isaac Beacroft (born 18 July 2007) is an Australian race walker. He won gold in the U20 men’s 10km race at the 2024 World Athletics Race Walking Team Championships.[1]
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Early life
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
He set the fastest 5000m 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 10km 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 10,000m 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 10,000m title in April 2025.[10]
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