{"id":170521,"date":"2025-12-06T04:03:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T04:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/170521\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T04:03:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T04:03:07","slug":"sam-ruthe-obliterates-nz-schoolboy-1500m-record-at-secondary-schools-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/170521\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Ruthe obliterates NZ schoolboy 1500m record at secondary schools championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ehSvJlTQHTuOTYQ\" style=\"display:none\">In March, aged 15, the Tauranga Boys\u2019 College student became the youngest person to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/sport\/olympics\/kiwi-runner-sam-ruthe-becomes-youngest-ever-to-break-four-minute-mile\/HUO2I2HZUFCNRFJOXNITV5OUYE\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/sport\/olympics\/kiwi-runner-sam-ruthe-becomes-youngest-ever-to-break-four-minute-mile\/HUO2I2HZUFCNRFJOXNITV5OUYE\/\">run a sub-four-minute mile<\/a>, becoming the 49th New Zealander to break the milestone target in Auckland, in 3min 58.35sec.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ehSvJlTQHTuOTYQ\" style=\"display:none\">In July, Ruthe lowered his own national under-17 and under-18 1500m records with his performance during the Sound Running Sunset Tour in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ehSvJlTQHTuOTYQ\" style=\"display:none\">The 1500m final is scheduled to run at 2pm on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ehSvJlTQHTuOTYQ\" style=\"display:none\">Ruthe has also qualified for the 800m final, which takes place earlier at 9:52am.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ehSvJlTQHTuOTYQ\" style=\"display:none\">The Herald has approached Ruthe for comment. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In March, aged 15, the Tauranga Boys\u2019 College student became the youngest person to run a sub-four-minute mile,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170522,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[110306,30884,27309,74,9526,1975,5759,10749,111,139,69,110305,1974,110307,8808,110304,18460,18429,6649,2242,12819,14570,213,10706,1865,80],"class_list":["post-170521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-1500m","tag-achievement","tag-added","tag-after","tag-another","tag-at","tag-championships","tag-impressive","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-obliterates","tag-record","tag-resum","tag-running","tag-ruthe","tag-sam","tag-schoolboy","tag-schools","tag-secondary","tag-sensation","tag-shattering","tag-sports","tag-teenage","tag-today","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}