Australian All Schools Day 1: Beacroft produces a World Age best and Louison-Roe leaps to the best in the meet’s history

Published Sat 09 Dec 2023

8 December 2023

Australian All Schools Day 1: Beacroft produces a World Age best and Louison-Roe leaps to the best in the meet’s history

Triple jumper Izobelle Louison-Roe and race walker Isaac Beacroft have etched their names into history with record breaking performances on day one at the Australian All Schools Championships in windy Perth today. Beacroft, who has smashed many records this year, set not just a championship, NSW or Australian record, but a world best for an under-17 athlete. In the field events, Izobelle Louison-Roe bounded out to 13.39m in the triple jump, the longest by a female in the meet’s five decade history.

Izobelle Louison-Roe - Triple Jump 13.39m

After bounding out to 13+ metres recently at the NSW Little Athletics relay championships, a similar distance was on the cards for Louison-Roe today.

She started well with wind legal jumps of 12.77m and 12.86m – the second an official personal best. In round three she leapt 12.95m, but was assisted by a hefty +5.3m/s wind. On her last attempt she hit 13.39m with a 3.2m/s wind, not much over the legal limit of 2.0m/s for records and official PBs.

Ahead of competing in Perth she had set a high bar for herself.

“Before I came over to Perth I was telling myself maybe 13.30 or something like that, so I’m super happy to get that distance today,” she said.

Signs were good early in the competition with no fouls, then on attempt four, she finally got on the board.

“I actually thought I fouled it and was going to pull out (mid-jump) but kept going.”

Her performance was remark, here is a summary:

-It was meet record

-longest jump in all-conditions in women’s triple jump at the meet, dating back to the ‘70s

-second longest in Australian U20 history, in all-conditions

-fourth longest under-18 in the World in 2023, in all-conditions

Australian All Schools – All Time List women triple jump

13.39w 3.2 Izzobelle Louison-Roe U17 N 2023

13.26w 2.5 Sarah Sydney U16 Q 1999

13.25w 2.2 Sarah Sydney U20 Q 1999

13.15 1.3 Allyah Johnson U18 Q 2013

13.14 -0.8 Yan Sun U18 CHN 2008

13.02w 5.6 Carmen Miller U19 T 1995

Isaac Beacroft – World Under-17 best all-time

Nearly every time Isaac Beacroft steps foot on the track he breaks records. Last year he broke the meet record and Australian record, today, he broke the championship record, the Australian U18 and U20 records and recorded the fastest U17 5000m walk in world history. His time of 19:31.21, missed the officially recognised, by World Athletics, under-18 World Best time of 19:30.15 by Chinese athlete Rui Zhang.

He was understandably super excited after the race, celebrating with his mates, including Daniel Williams.

“I’m stoked with that, I’m really happy. It was good to come out, hit the time I really wanted to get the gold. I’m thankful for the boys who dragged me through in the first two kilometres,” Beacroft told Athletics Australia.

Chelsy Wayne sets seasons best

Wollongong’s Chelsy Wayne dominated the under-17 girls discus claiming the title by over 10 metres. The Commonwealth Youth Games medallist, threw 50.83m, to finish within a metre of her PB. It was also her third World U20 Championships qualifier for 2024.

Some other highlights

In one of the first evets on the program, Cameron Bloem smashed the meet record with an outstanding win in the under-15 2000m steeplechase. Cameron clock 5:59.05, to take over 10 seconds from the old standard set in 2004.

In the under-16 2000m steeplechase Nicholas McGill won in an outstanding time of 5:55.38, just missing the 21-year-old meet record held by NSW’s James Matthews at 5:55.06.

Tamworth’s Olivia Earl won the under-17 Para Shot 8.44m, bring her tally of National titles to over dozen.