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Even in her finest hour, Boh Ritchie found her long-awaited breakthrough lost amid the clamour over another distance-running prodigy on this side of the Tasman.
In December, the Cambridge teen erased a Kiwi athletics legend from the record books, eclipsing Lorraine Moller's junior 800 metres mark with 2m 03.14s in Sydney.
Unfortunately, that same night, Sam Ruthe, 16, grabbed all the headlines with another in a string of extraordinary performances in his 5000 metres debut in Auckland.
In the space of a month, the kid from Tauranga has captured national U20 records over 800m, 1000m, 1500m and 5000m.
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