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  •   Home > News > Sports > Athletics

    An array of personal bests and maiden titles have been claimed at the Potts Classic athletics event in Hawke's Bay

    An array of personal bests and maiden titles have been claimed at the Potts Classic athletics event in Hawke's Bay


    16-year-old Sam Ruthe upset two-time Olympian Sam Tanner in the 800 metre by eight hundredths of a second with an under-20 national record time of 1.45.86 .

    Ruthe snuck under the World Indoor Championships entry standard time.

    Sprinters Tiaan Whelpton and Zoe Hobbs took out their respective inaugural NZ Short Track Championships 60m titles.

    © 2026 Newstalk ZB, NZCity

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     09 Feb: Zoe Hobbs and Tiaan Whelpton are Poland-bound after posting world indoor athletics championships 60-metre qualifying times at the Sir Graeme Douglas International in Auckland
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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
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