{"id":250357,"date":"2026-01-25T01:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T01:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/250357\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T01:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T01:03:08","slug":"teen-athletics-star-sam-ruthe-smashes-mile-world-record-for-his-age-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/250357\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen athletics star Sam Ruthe smashes mile world record for his age"},"content":{"rendered":"
\u201cTo lead out some of this race was something I felt I just had to do. I\u2019ll hopefully get my time down faster.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tanner, 25, defended his national men\u2019s senior mile title, surging past Ruthe in the home straight to win in 3m 53.36s.<\/p>\n
Sam Tanner (left) and Sam Ruthe competing in the Potts Classic 800m at Mitre 10 Park, Hastings. Photo \/ Photosport<\/p>\n
It came a week after Ruthe pipped Tanner in an exciting 800m race at the Potts Classic in Hastings.<\/p>\n
Last year the pair finished in a dead heat in the final of the men\u2019s 1500m at the national championships.<\/p>\n
Both will leave for the United States next week, with Ruthe eyeing four indoor mile races on successive weekends, in a campaign he believes will be important for his development.<\/p>\n
Ruthe is now seventh on the list of all-time New Zealand milers, having overtaken the legendary Sir Peter Snell.<\/p>\n
In other notable results, sprinters Tiaan Whelpton and Zoe Hobbs won the respective men\u2019s and women\u2019s 100m titles in sharp \u2013 though wind-assisted \u2013 times.<\/p>\n
Ireland\u2019s Laura Nicholson ran a smart time of 4m 43.75s to win the women\u2019s mile.<\/p>\n
\u2013 RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cTo lead out some of this race was something I felt I just had to do. I\u2019ll hopefully…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250358,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[7127,16671,2082,293,42782,111,139,69,1974,110304,18460,78891,213,2737,5163,377],"class_list":{"0":"post-250357","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-age","9":"tag-athletics","10":"tag-for","11":"tag-his","12":"tag-mile","13":"tag-new-zealand","14":"tag-newzealand","15":"tag-nz","16":"tag-record","17":"tag-ruthe","18":"tag-sam","19":"tag-smashes","20":"tag-sports","21":"tag-star","22":"tag-teen","23":"tag-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250357","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=250357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}