{"id":298971,"date":"2026-02-24T01:42:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T01:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/298971\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T01:42:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T01:42:11","slug":"runner-sam-ruthe-claims-every-under-20-record-possible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/298971\/","title":{"rendered":"Runner Sam Ruthe claims every under-20 record possible"},"content":{"rendered":"

Runner Sam Ruthe has officially rewritten the record book, as he now holds every under-20 accolade possible.<\/p>\n

Having already claimed record times from 800-5000m, there was one distance evading his near-perfect resume, the 3000m.<\/p>\n

However, Ruthe completed the feat on Monday afternoon, as he comfortably eclipsed the time of 7:54.30 set by Liam Black in 2021, shaving more than 10 seconds off the record at the Saucony Battle in Boston.<\/p>\n

Ruthe crossed the finish in 7:43.16, coming second behind American Ernest Cheruiyot.<\/p>\n

Ruthe shot out of the blocks quickly and was just .03 seconds behind Cheruiyot at the first 200m.<\/p>\n

He dropped back to third after 800m, before he and Cheruiyot were separated by 0.24 seconds with 400m to go.<\/p>\n

Ruthe would produce his slowest 200m on the final stretch, though it was still more than fast enough to take the record.<\/p>\n

Boston University is a happy running ground for Ruthe, the site of his historic 3:48 mile.<\/p>\n

Ruthe became the youngest athlete to ever run a mile<\/a> quicker than 3m 50s and took the New Zealand men’s record from Sir John Walker, which he held for 44 years.<\/p>\n

Sam Ruthe’s complete crown of under-20 records:<\/p>\n

800m – 1:45.86<\/p>\n

1000m – 2:17.82<\/p>\n

1500m – 3:33.25<\/p>\n

Mile – 3:48.88 (NZ Mile Record)<\/p>\n

3000m – 7:43.16<\/p>\n

5000m – 13:40.48<\/p>\n

rnz.co.nz<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Runner Sam Ruthe has officially rewritten the record book, as he now holds every under-20 accolade possible. Having…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298972,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[16671,5194,164449,111,139,69,164450,213,19439],"class_list":{"0":"post-298971","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-athletics","9":"tag-hastings","10":"tag-mitre-10-park","11":"tag-new-zealand","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-potts-classic","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-track-and-field"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298971","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=298971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}