Personal life
Beamish was born to parents Simon and Josi Beamish. He has three siblings: Hugo, Lucinda, and Eve Beamish. [3] Hugo is also an athlete, having run cross country and track at Villanova University. [4] George attended Whanganui Collegiate as a boarder from Year 10.
Alongside OAC teammates Morgan McDonald and Olli Hoare, Beamish hosts the Coffee Club Podcast in which they discuss their lives as professional runners. [5]
Collegiate career
Beamish attended Northern Arizona University, where he competed for the Northern Arizona Lumberjacks and was coached by Mike Smith. He was NCAA Divison I Indoor Men's Mile champion in 2019 and is a two-time NCAA All-American in cross country (2017, 2018). [7]
2016
On 30 January, Beamish made his debut for NAU running a 4:24.48 mile in Flagstaff. He competed in four indoor meets, setting a mile personal best of 4:07.59 at the Iowa State classic. [8]
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. [9]
2017
Indoors, Beamish set a personal best time in the 3000 m 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. [9]
Beamish ended 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 by 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. [9]
2019
On 23 February, he won the Big Sky Conference Indoor Men's Mile Champion with a time of 4:10.90. He then won 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 finished 37th at the NCAA national championship. [9]
Professional career
2023
At the 2023 Millrose Games, Beamish finished sixth in the 3000 m 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, Beamish made his debut in the 3000 metres steeplechase at Mt. SAC in a time of 8:42.56. [11] On 21 July, he set an Oceanian record of 8:13.26 in the event at the Monaco Diamond League, and on 22 August he finished fifth at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in the 3000 m steeplechase 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 finished fourth in a 5000 m in 13:04.33 at the Boston University John Thomas Terrier Classic. This time, he 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. [12] [13]
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. [14]
On 7 July, Beamish improved his Oceanian record to 8:09.64, finishing fifth in the 3000 m steeplechase at the Meeting de Paris. [15]
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