World Athletics Have Ratified The World Records For Fisher, Koech Alongside Beacroft.

February 2026: The world 5000 metres short track record of 12:44.09 set by USA’s Grant Fisher in Boston on 14th February 2025 has been ratified by World Athletics.

Similarly, 02 world U20 records: the 1500 metres mark by Kenya’s Phanuel Koech in Paris in June and the 10,000 metres race walk performance by Australia’s Isaac Beacroft in Sydney in December, have also been ratified.

The world 5000 metres short track record at the BU David Hemery Valentine International came less than a week after Fisher broke the world 3000 metres short track record in New York. After passing 3000m in 7:39.16 – a comfortable 16 seconds outside the world record mark of 07:22.91 he clocked six days earlier – the double Olympic bronze medalist continued to run sub-31-second laps.

• Men’s 5000 metres short track: 12:44.09 Grant Fisher (USA) Boston, 14th February 2025.

• Men’s U20 1500 metres: 03:27.72 Phanuel Koech (KENYA) Paris, 20th June 2025.

• Men’s U20 10,000 metres race walk: 38:02.68 Isaac Beacroft (AUSTRALIA) Sydney, 11th December 2025

Fisher had covered the final 400 metres in 59.36 seconds and reached the finish line in 12:44.09, taking 05 seconds off the previous world short track record of 12:49.60 set by Ethiopia’s Kenenisa Bekele in Birmingham on 20 February 2004.

“12:44.09 for the indoor 5000 metres world record!” Fisher wrote on social media at the time. Two world records in six days to cap off one of the craziest weeks of my life. Time for some rest”.

Phanuel Koech achieved his world U20 1500 metres record at the Meeting de Paris on 20 June.

Finishing second behind winner Azeddine Habz during the Wanda Diamond League meeting, the then 18 years old Koech clocked 03:27.72 to improve the world U20 record of 03:28.81 that had been set by his Kenyan compatriot Ronald Kwemoi in Monaco on 18th July 2014.

The performance places Koech 09th on the world all-time list.

Beacroft set his world U20 10,000 metres race walk record at the NSW 10,000m Walk Championships in Sydney on 11th December 2025.

The 18-year-old, who won the U20 title at the World Race Walking Team Championships in Antalya in 2024, clocked 38:02.68 to break the record of 38:46.4 that had been set by Russia’s Viktor Burayev in Moscow on 20th May 2000.

Team Maverick.