The 16-year-old - Tanner's Tauranga training partner - set his age group world mile record at the Cooks Classic in Whanganui over the weekend.

Tanner says the realisation hit after Ruthe beat him over 800 metres at the previous meet in Hastings...

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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

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

25 Jan: Sam Tanner's win over teen star Sam Ruthe in the New Zealand Mile Championships at the Cooks Classic has come with a cherry on top

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