Sixteen-year-old Sam Ruthe has stunned the athletics world after setting a new U18 mile world record with a time of 3:48.88 at the John Thomas Terrier Classic indoor meet in Boston.
The performance made him the youngest athlete ever to break the 3:50 barrier and saw him surpass the long-standing New Zealand men’s mile record set by Sir John Walker in 1982.
Despite heavy travel fatigue and competing in his first indoor track race, Ruthe recorded one of the fastest indoor mile times ever run.
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