2025
In January, at the Cooks Garden Meet in Whanganui, Ruthe ran the mile in a time of 4:01.72, reported to be 3.7 seconds quicker than the known world best for his age group. [7] [8]
On 1 February, Ruthe won the New Zealand senior men's 3000m national championship held at the Potts Classic Meet in Hastings. His time of 7:56.18 was a world best for his age group, and in winning Ruthe became the youngest national men's champion in New Zealand athletics history, beating the previous youngest male, Dave Norris, who was 17 when he won the triple jump in 1957. [8] [13] [14] A few days later on 9 February, Ruthe ran 3:41.25 over 1500 metres at the Sir Graeme Douglas International in Auckland to beat Jakob Ingebrigtsen's world age-15 best of 3:42.44 from 2016. [15]
On 9 March, Ruthe won the New Zealand national senior men's 1500 metre title at Dunedin's Caledonian Ground, tying for first with Sam Tanner in a time of 3:44.31. [1] On 19 March, 25 days before his 16th birthday, Ruthe became the youngest person, and first 15-year-old, to run a sub-four minute mile, clocking 3:58.35 in Auckland. [3] [16]
Ruthe ran a new 1500 m personal best of 3:40.12 in the John Landy Mile at the Maurie Plant Meet in Melbourne, on 29 March 2025. [17] [18]
