We changed the thread titled to make it more descriptive. It was initially titled, "Ruthe and Tanner dead heat."
If you are unfamiliar with Ruthe, since the start of 2025, he has set World records for fastest 1500 (3:41.25), mile (4:01.72) and 3000 (7:56.18) ever run by someone at the age of 15 (he turns 16 on April 12). That being said, him tying Tanner is a shock as Tanner ran 3:51 in the mile for the win at BU on February 21 and has a 3:31 1500 pb from 2023.
We also merged a 2nd thread into this one. It was titled, "Sam Ruthe and Sam Tanner tie in NZ 1500m Champs!"
3:44.311 to be exact 😂 I'm here watching live and that bloody insane 🤯😱😱😱😱
The craziest thing I've ever witnessed at a track event! Sam Ruthe 15 yr old had no right to challenge an Olympic 1500m runner!
Sam Tanner took the lead in the second lap with Ruthe in tow and the poor local who got left behind in a credible 3rd (a sub 4min miler in his own right)
I've never seen a 100m result for the win internationally otherwise tie down to the thousandth of a second let alone anything above that!
First of all you change my thread title. Then you deleted my hilarious comment about weakleg lives. Come on Rojo you should be in a good mood your boy Jakob is about to do the double.
“We had a bit of a plan going into it. My plan was to take the first k [kilometre] and just progressively step on it a bit more.
“I wanted to keep it close and drag him through to get silver but it’s even better, we got first-equal.”
Tanner can say whatever he wants but I think he's in the exact same situation that Cooper Teare was in a few years ago. I wonder if he's realized what Teare must have realized at some point, "This younger guy is just better and there's nothing I can do about it."
I'd love to know if Teare has ever admitted that to himself. I assume most people try to deny it in their own heads.