Geordie Beamish

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Geordie Beamish
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Beamish after winning the 1500m at the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships
Personal information
Born (1996-10-24) 24 October 1996 (age 28)
Hastings, New Zealand
Sport
CountryNew Zealand
Sport Track and Field
Events
University team Northern Arizona Lumberjacks
Club On Athletics Club [1]
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Medal record
Men's athletics
Representing Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand
World Indoor Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2024 Glasgow 1500 m

George Beamish (born 24 October 1996) is a New Zealand middle- and long-distance runner, [2] who won the 1500 metres at the 2024 World Indoor Championships. He holds the Oceania area record in the 3000 m steeplechase of 8:09.64 and the New Zealand record in the indoor 3000 m and 5000 m. He finished fifth at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in the 3000 m steeplechase.

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Collegiate career

Beamish attended Northern Arizona University where he competed for the Northern Arizona Lumberjacks and was coached by Mike Smith.

2016

On 30 January, Beamish made his debut for NAU running a 4:24.48 mile in Flagstaff. He would go on to compete in four indoor meets, setting a mile personal best of 4:07.59 at the Iowa State classic.

In his debut collegiate cross country season, Beamish placed ninth at the Big Sky Championship and finished 97th at the NCAA Division I Cross Country Championships.as the seventh man on the NAU championship winning squad. [3]

2017

Indoors, Beamish set a personal best time in the 3000m of 8:10.06 at the Iowa State Classic.

He opened the outdoor season with a personal best of 13:53.59 over 5000 m at the Stanford Invitational, followed by a 3:41.87 1500 m personal best at the Bryan Clay Invitational. [3]

Beamish would end his outdoor season finishing eighth in the 5000 m at the Big Sky Championships and tenth in his heat of the 1500 m at the NCAA West Preliminaries.

He finished his second collegiate cross country season placing 40th at the national meet, earning All American honors and another national team title with NAU.

2018

Beamish competed in just one race during the outdoor season (after suffering injury) where he finished 13th over 5000 m in 13:55.65 at the Stanford Invitational.

During the cross country season, he placed placed fourth at the Big Sky Cross Country Championship, 14th at the Nuttycombe Wisconsin Invitational, and 25th at Wisconsin Pre-Nationals. To finish the season, he earned All-American status and placed 39th in at the NCAA Championship. [3]

2019

On 23 February, he won the Big Sky Conference Indoor Men's Mile Champion with a time of 4:10.90.He would follow that performance up with an NCAA title in the mile at the NCAA Division I Indoor Championship, in a time of 4:07.69. Outdoors, he set a 5000 m personal best at the Payton Jordan Invite with a time of 13:31.58. At the NCAA Division I Outdoor Championship he placed 10th in the 5000 m with a time of 14:13.18.

In cross country, he won the NCAA D1 Mountain Region Championship and went on to finish 37th at the NCAA national championship. [3]

2020

In early 2020, Beamish set a personal best of 7:44.67 over 3000 m at the Boston University Valentine Invitational and finished sixth at the Millrose Games Wanamaker Mile in a personal best time of 3:56.90. [3]

Professional career

2020–2021

In August 2020, Beamish turned professional joining the newly formed On Athletics Club coached by US Olympian Dathan Ritzenhein.

In August 2021, after missing out on the postponed 2020 Summer Olympics, he ran personal bests of 3:54.86 in the mile at the Prefontaine Classic and 7:42.39 over 3000 m in Rovereto, Italy.

In December 2021, he set a New Zealand indoor record in the 5000 m at Boston University with a time of 13:12.53.

2022

At the Millrose Games on 29 January, he won the 3000 m in a New Zealand national indoor record of 7:39.50. [4]

In March, Beamish competed in the 3000 m at the World Athletics Indoor Championships in Belgrade, Serbia. In the preliminary round, placed second in his heat and then finished 10th in the final in a time of 7:46.91. [2]

Outdoors, he set a personal best of 3:36.53 in the 1500 m at the Sound Running TEN and an outdoor 5000 m personal best of 13:19.90 at the Paris Diamond League. At the 2022 World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Oregon, he competed in the 5000 m where he was eliminated in the heats. [2]

He finished his season with two sixth-place finishes at the 2022 Commonwealth Games 5000 m and the Fifth Avenue Mile. [2]

2023

At the 2023 Millrose Games, Beamish finished sixth in the 3000m to lower his own New Zealand record to 7:36.22. Two weeks later, at the BU Last Chance qualifier, he set a personal best in the mile of 3:51.22 just missing Nick Willis' New Zealand national indoor mile record of 3:51.06. [2]

On 13 April, he made his debut in the 3000 metres steeplechase at Mt. SAC in a time of 8:42.56. [5] On 21 July he set an Oceanian record of 8:13.26 in the event at the Monaco Diamond League and on 22 August finished fifth at the World Championships in Budapest, Hungary. [2]

In September, he finished third in both the Fifth Avenue Mile, in 3:50, and the steeplechase at the Diamond League Final in Eugene, Oregon, in a time of 8:14.01. [2]

2024

On 26 January, Beamish finish fourth in a 5000m in 13:04.33 at the Boston University John Thomas Terrier Classic. This time broke his own New Zealand indoor record and also bettered the New Zealand outdoor record. It was also under the Olympic standard of 13:05.00. [6] [7]

Two weeks later at the 2024 Millrose Games, Beamish set an Oceanian record in the indoor 2 miles in a time of 8:05.73. In the process, he recorded a 3000m time of 7:34.88, faster than the New Zealand record, but Athletics New Zealand does not at present recognise intermediate times for national records.

On 3 March, Beamish won the gold medal in the 1500 m at the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships. [8]

On 7 July, Beamish improved his Oceanian record to 8:09.64 in finishing fifth in the 3000m steeplechase at the Meeting de Paris. [9]

Personal life

Beamish was born to parents Simon and Josi Beamish. He has three siblings: Hugo, Lucinda, and Eve Beamish. [10] Hugo is also an athlete, having run cross country and track at Villanova University. [11]

Alongside OAC teammates Morgan McDonald and Olli Hoare, Beamish hosts the "Coffee Club Podcast" in which they discuss their lives as professional runners. [12]

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References

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  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Geordie Beamish at World Athletics
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 "TFRRS | Geordie Beamish – Track and Field Results & Statistics". www.tfrrs.org. Retrieved 7 October 2023.
  4. ↑ "Beamish, Teare, and Kerr highlight Millrose Games 3000m | NEWS | World Athletics". worldathletics.org. Retrieved 7 October 2023.
  5. ↑ "TFRRS | 63rd Annual Mt. SAC Relays - Men 3000m Steeplechase Invitational Elite".
  6. ↑ "Track Scoreboard". live.lancertiming.com. Retrieved 27 January 2024.
  7. ↑ "Athletics track & combined events at Paris 2024: The entry standards".
  8. ↑ "Geordie Beamish Wins Indoor 1500m Gold as Americans Cole Hocker and Hobbs Kessler Get Silver and Bronze". LetsRun.com. Retrieved 3 March 2023.
  9. ↑ "3000m Steeplechase Result" (PDF). swisstiming.com. 7 July 2024. Retrieved 8 July 2024.
  10. ↑ "Geordie Beamish - Track & Field". Northern Arizona University Athletics. Retrieved 7 October 2023.
  11. ↑ "Hugo Beamish - Men's Track and Field". Villanova University Athletics. Retrieved 13 July 2024.
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