Athletics
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Big time effort from Maddi Wesche to do an equal PB and win the bronze in the shot put. She only got the PB a couple of months ago in the US, and now did it on the big stage.
2 golds and 1 bronze is awesome for us.
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Congrats to our Samoan usos who take home the bronze in the Mens Discus
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NZ finishes joint 5th on the medal table which is pretty impressive for such a tiny squad of athletes. Only USA, Kenya, Canada and the Netherlands were above them and NZ was level with Botswana, Spain and Sweden.
Ahead of Jamaica, Germany, Italy, Australia, France, GB, China, Japan, South Africa etc etc
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NZ finishes joint 5th on the medal table which is pretty impressive for such a tiny squad of athletes. Only USA, Kenya, Canada and the Netherlands were above them and NZ was level with Botswana, Spain and Sweden.
Ahead of Jamaica, Germany, Italy, Australia, France, GB, China, Japan, South Africa etc etc
Very credible effort. Once again NZ punches bigger than it's weight.
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Congrats to our Samoan usos who take home the bronze in the Mens Discus
Very disruptive final. Stop / start with all the rain. Athletes were slipping over and they had to adjust the format during it.
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Poor games for GB
Excellent watch with some brilliant performances
Crazy weather
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@MiketheSnow said in Athletics:
Poor games for GB
Excellent watch with some brilliant performances
That final 100 from Beamish is burned into my retina, as was Hamish Kerrs third and successful jump when he was facing ending up with the bronze.
Two clutch moments where you see a champ grit it out and show their championship bona fides. Never gave up.
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Femke Bol is switching from the 400 hurdles to the 800.
I like it, cool for an athlete to accomplish their goals in one discipline and then switch to another...it would be cool if more athletes did this imo.
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Sam Ruthe beats the national 1500m schoolboy record, hit time of 3:38 smashes the previous best time set in 1989.
https://www.1news.co.nz/2025/12/06/sam-ruthe-shatters-nz-schoolboy-1500m-record/
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Took a look at the world record progressions to see which year Sam Ruthe's personal bests would have set a world record.
800m - 1938
1,500m - 1956
Mile - 1953
3,000m - 1954Interestingly his younger sister Daisy (14) has run just over 4:30 for 1,500m and that would have set the women's world record in 1956.
