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3 Feb 2025 16:07

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Teenage middle distance runner Samuel Ruthe's become the youngest man to win a national senior track and field title

2 February 2025

The 15-year-old has won the men's 3000m at the Potts Classic in Hastings in a time of seven minutes 56.18

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Other Athletics News

03 Feb: Fourth for Zoe Hobbs in the 60 metres final at an indoor grand prix event in Boston

30 Jan: New Zealand's triple jump brothers have made a solid start to the season at the Capital Classic athletics meet in Wellington

29 Jan: Athletics Australia takes on 'bold, new identity' with Australian Athletics rebrand

28 Jan: Sprinter Tiaan Whelpton claims he's under quality supervision looking towards the 2028 Olympics

26 Jan: Sprinter Tiaan Whelpton has pointed to a new training regime as the key behind breaking a 30-year-old Athletics New Zealand national record

01 Jan: Double Olympic champion Beatrice Chebet has beaten the women's 5-kilometre world record with a time of 13 minutes 54 seconds at a road race in Barcelona

18 Dec: High Performance Sport New Zealand is putting faith in cycling in the next Olympic cycle - boosting funding for the sport by 770 thousand dollars, with canoe racing and athletics also seeing sizeable jumps in support

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