Isaac Beacroft
Australian athlete (born 2007)
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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 and World Under-20 champion in the 5,000 metres race walk. He won the gold medal in the 10,000 metres race walk at the 2026 Commonwealth Games.
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| Nationality | Australian | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 18 July 2007 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country |  Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | Race walking | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Personal bests | 5000 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
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Beacroft also won gold 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
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 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]
