{"id":171327,"date":"2025-12-07T01:52:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T01:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/171327\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T01:52:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T01:52:08","slug":"athletics-sam-ruthe-sets-new-benchmark-in-800m-a-day-after-breaking-1500m-record-at-secondary-schools-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/171327\/","title":{"rendered":"Athletics: Sam Ruthe sets new benchmark in 800m a day after breaking 1500m record at secondary schools championships"},"content":{"rendered":"

The result came just a day after he shattered the New Zealand Secondary Schools\u2019 1500m record.<\/p>\n

He stopped the clock at 3m 38.62s in the first semi-final of that event, surpassing the previous best time by eight seconds.<\/p>\n

That record was set by former Commonwealth Games runner Richard Potts in 1989.<\/p>\n

The 1500m final is scheduled to run at 2pm today.<\/p>\n

The records add to what has been a big year for the teenage star.<\/p>\n

In March, aged 15, the Tauranga Boys\u2019 College student became the youngest person to run a sub-four-minute mile<\/a>, becoming the 49th New Zealander to break the milestone target in Auckland, in 3m 58.35s.<\/p>\n

Olympian Sam Tanner helped lead Ruthe in the second half of that race, setting the pace for the teenager towards the finish line.<\/p>\n

Ruthe finished second behind Tanner in 3m 58.35s, with third-placed Ben Wall also breaking the four-minute mile to become the 50th New Zealander to do so.<\/p>\n

In July, Ruthe lowered his own national U17 and U18 1500m records with his performance during the Sound Running Sunset Tour in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The result came just a day after he shattered the New Zealand Secondary Schools\u2019 1500m record. He stopped…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171328,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[110306,110698,74,9526,1975,16671,13985,1647,5759,5972,78,117,111,139,69,1974,110304,18460,6649,2242,1973,213],"class_list":["post-171327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-1500m","tag-800m","tag-after","tag-another","tag-at","tag-athletics","tag-benchmark","tag-breaking","tag-championships","tag-day","tag-in","tag-new","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-record","tag-ruthe","tag-sam","tag-schools","tag-secondary","tag-sets","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171327","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=171327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}