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Tori Peeters has bettered her own New Zealand residents record with a 60.51m javelin throw - 37cm longer than her previous mark

5 February 2022

She was almost 14m better than her nearest rival.

Tiaan Whelpton and Zoe Hobbs won the 100m men's and women's sprint races.

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05 Feb: New Zealand's Winter Olympic chef de mission Marty Toomey has praised his team's experienced athletes for easing the nerves of the debutants

03 Feb: Sam Ruthe is halfway towards fulfilling his part of the bargain for a chance to board the plane to the Glasgow Commonwealth Games

02 Feb: Sam Ruthe's coach Craig Kirkwood is refusing to put a limit on the teenage phenom's future in middle-distance running

01 Feb: New Zealand's teenage running star says he wants to go even faster .. after another Worlds' best

31 Jan: A personal best for kiwi pole vaulter Imogen Ayris at a World Athletics indoor meet in France

27 Jan: Sam Tanner is adamant teen running phenom Sam Ruthe is a once-in-a-generation athlete

26 Jan: To intervene as overbearing parents, or let a generational talent chase what's possible at 16-years-old?

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