Athletics

KiwiPie

Maddi Wesche (great performance) now has the double of Olympics/World Champs of leading into the final round and not getting the gold.

Higgins

Congrats to our Samoan usos who take home the bronze in the Mens Discus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Rose_(athlete)

KiwiPie

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

nonpartizan

@KiwiPie said in Athletics:

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.

ACT Crusader

@Higgins said in Athletics:

Congrats to our Samoan usos who take home the bronze in the Mens Discus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Rose_(athlete)

Very disruptive final. Stop / start with all the rain. Athletes were slipping over and they had to adjust the format during it.

MiketheSnow

Poor games for GB

Excellent watch with some brilliant performances

Crazy weather

nonpartizan

@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.

nonpartizan

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.

nonpartizan

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/

mikedogz

KiwiPie

Those are some pretty impressive times for a solo run. 1,500m final still to come

antipodean

KiwiPie

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 - 1954

Interestingly 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.

The Silver Fern

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