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Race walker Tom Bosworth commits future to 50km and eyes British record
- Updated: October 26, 2016
Tom Bosworth will step up to the 50km walk at the end of 2018 in a bid to officially become Britain’s greatest ever race walker across the whole spectrum of distances.
Bosworth enjoyed an outstanding 2016 as he twice broke the national 20km record – once en route to a sixth-placed finish at the Olympic Games – to add to a growing collection of British bests which include 3000m, 5km indoors and outdoors, and 10km.
The 26-year-old from Tonbridge is yet to attempt the man-killer distance as he targets international medals at the shorter championship event, but told AW ahead of the Great South Run 5km, where he walked the distance in 20:10, that increasing the distance up to 50km is something he is planning to do not too far down the line.
“In my mind I’m looking at 2018 …
