William Goodge: Male model set a world record by running from Perth to Sydney in memory of his mother – but now a stunning detail has accused him of cheating

The British model became Endurance athlete William Goodge fourth when he runs his 3800 km run from the run of Perth Unpleasant Sydney In just 35 days to 19 May – but now, not even a week later, he is entangled as accusations that he has false.

The former semi-professional rugby player from Bedfordshire started his journey on Cottesloe Beach on April 15 and achieved his target to beat one of the most inhospitable country in Australia in just 35 days.

The 31-year-old started running in 2018 to process his mother’s cancer Diagnosis, telling the Daily Mail that ‘running helped me to deal with my demons’.

Since that time, the popular endurance athlete has taken on many challenges, including becoming the fastest Englishman running through the US, which raises thousands of cancer research in the process.

He broke the world record of the Australian runner Chris Turnbull with an average of more than 100 km per day at about seven and a half minutes per kilometer.

Ultra-endurance hard runners usually upload data from body-worn devices to show how they are advanced, and Goodge was no different on his incredible journey.

William Goodge is depicted celebrating after running from Perth to Bondi Beach in just 35 days, breaking a world record

The 31-year-old endurance athlete (photo) on average more than 100 km per day on the trip

He used a Garmin Inreach Satellite communicator and its location, speed and other statistics such as heart rate were measured using the Strava -exercise -app.

Strava users who investigated his data during the run said that goodge ran 400 meters in just 23 seconds on April 16, the second day after he left Cottesloe.

That is comparable to the current 400m men’s world record of 43.03 seconds, determined by Wayde Van Nierkerk from South Africa at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.

Skeptics have picked up that remarkable piece of data to support their accusations against goodge, but the data can also be unreliable or downright incorrect due to difficulties caused by sending the data from such an external location.

Canadian running Magazine noted that the heart rate data of the body -based equipment was often at 100 to 105 beats per minute, and called that ‘shockingly layer for 14+ hours in a rough climate’.

Goodge has been hit back at the allegations.

“I knew it would come,” he told the ABC.

“I was prepared for that and it comes with the territory. And you can’t blame people for coming to you and questioning your things.

“It’s just a part of the plot.”

Goodge (photo) has taken back on allegations that some of the data he has recorded at his 3800 km Cross-Country Slog are incorrect

He added that he and his team made the Run record setting as transparent as possible by uploading the data and setting up a live tracker, so that everyone who wanted to come and see him on the road could have done that at any time.

Such accusations are nothing new for Goodge.

He even tried to catch Goodge in the field of cheating by flying to the United States to confront the athlete during his Run from Los Angeles to New York in 2023, but he found no evidence.

‘Yes, Goodge is a handsome man and he earns a lot of money. But what registers me is that he takes away a lot of money from the more deserving international athletes that are there, “said Cockerell Time.

Other runners have also expressed skepticism, including the well -known ultrarunner Rob Pope, who told The Times that he hopes that the reports of Goodge are real, but his ‘heartbeat is not logical’.

William Cockerell, an experienced long -distance runner and sportswriter in the UK, has said for years that the statistics of Goodge are too good to be true and has accused him of ‘Watch Muling’ – a form of cheating where sharing a GPS device between runners contains.