{"id":359552,"date":"2024-01-12T22:39:24","date_gmt":"2024-01-12T23:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=359552"},"modified":"2024-01-13T00:02:03","modified_gmt":"2024-01-13T00:02:03","slug":"this-aussie-kid-can-walk-faster-than-most-adults-can-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=359552","title":{"rendered":"This Aussie kid can walk faster than most adults can run"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of Australia's most promising multi-sport up-and-comers has chucked his Sherrin in his ball bin and locked his eyes on his spikes, making a wholehearted commitment to race walking and running<\/a> as he dreams of becoming an Olympian<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A 16-year-old from Sydney's west by the name of Isaac Beacroft\ufeff is usually gearing up for another season with the Greater Western Sydney Giants<\/a> academy over summer, but he's now going all in on athletics after cranking out a host of record-breaking race walks.<\/p>\n

In an indication of just how prodigious a race walker Beacroft is, he set the fastest 5000m time by an under-17 race walker in world history in December, clocking 19:31.21. Most people can only dream of running that fast in their local parkrun. Beacroft also fell just 1.07 seconds short of breaking the under-18 world record.<\/p>\n

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The rising athlete, a year 12 student at Oak Hill College, also shattered five junior Australian race walking records over the 3000m, 5000m and 10,000m distances in the space of some 12 months. Some of those records had stood for 25 years or longer.<\/p>\n

He's a superb runner, too, as he showed when smashing the 2023 City to Surf in 46:10 and crossing the finish line in 26th place.<\/p>\n

"As I've gone further in my journey in athletics, I've realised that\ufeff it's going to take a bit more … for me to get where I want to be," Beacroft told Wide World of Sports.<\/p>\n

"It's going to take a bit of focus. It was either one or the other; one of them had to give.<\/p>\n

\"Isaac<\/p>\n

"Athletics was the one I wanted to pursue a bit more for a couple of reasons; I'm better at athletics than I am football and I'm closer to the international stuff than I am to making the AFL … That was a big one for me. But it also comes down to the fact that it's too much physically and it's too much on my plate with year 12, as well, and trying to compete at the international level in athletics."<\/p>\n

Beacroft is gunning for this year's World Athletics U20 Championships,\ufeff to be held in Lima, Peru in August.<\/p>\n

His longer-term sights are set on the Olympic Games of Los Angeles 2028 and Brisbane 2032.<\/p>\n

"It was a very hard decision," he said of parking his footy ambitions.<\/p>\n

"I had been tossing it up for a long time. I knew that it was going to come to a point where I had to choose."<\/p>\n

\"Isaac<\/p>\n

But he's open to taking up footy again in 2025, when he'll be eligible for the AFL draft.<\/p>\n

"As an AFL player, I am the guy who works really hard, runs a lot and gets really clean hands around the contest\ufeff," he said.<\/p>\n

"Picking the ball up out of contests, getting it on the outside and running a lot, two-way running, defending, attacking, maximising \ufeffmy running as much as I can."<\/p>\n

While Beacroft hasn't given up on becoming an elite runner, race walking\ufeff is undoubtedly his specialty.<\/p>\n

\"Isaac<\/p>\n

He idolises Ryan Gregson, the Australian who made an Olympic 1500m final and is now a marathon runner<\/a>, as well as Australian race walker Jemima Montag, who grabbed silver in the 20km event at the 2023 World Athletics Championships.\ufeff<\/p>\n

He speaks with the priceless passion of any sports-mad Australian kid.\ufeff<\/p>\n

"I'm sure that's the dream of absolutely every single Aussie kid \u2014 just to go out and be an elite sportsperson for the rest of their lives, earn their money doing that, doing what they love, pretty much play sport\ufeff for the rest of your life," said Beacroft, who's coached by his dad in race walking.<\/p>\n

"That's definitely my goal and it has been since I could walk."<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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