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The ease at which running prodigy Sam Ruthe smashed the long-standing secondary schools 1500 metre record took the 16-year-old by surprise.
The Tauranga Boys' College student shattered the record, held by Commonwealth Games runner Richard Potts since 1989, by eight seconds on Saturday at the New Zealand Secondary Schools Track and Field Championship in Hastings.
"I was really, really surprised because I thought I was just going to beat it by a couple of seconds, like two seconds or somethi
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