Sam Ruthe continued his amazing series of runs as a fifteen year old winning the 38th edition of the annual Sir John Walker junior mile in 4:10.43. Ruthe led throughout heading in Waikato Bay of Plenty team mates Hamish Murray and Jake Lomas.

Ruthe said that he was wanting to run an even race.

“So I took off a bit slower than I wanted to be, about a 63, and I just managed to hold it. Hamish, my training partner, pushed me a bit and made it a real nice race,” he said, adding It was just a bit windy.

“I’ll be doing the mile at the Cooks Classic in Wanganui (on January 25), where I’ll be trying to go sub 4:05 hopefully. I hope it’s not as windy there.”

Lisa Hellyer won the third annual Millie Sampson women’s under 23 mile debuting over the distance in 4:56.49.

Lex Revell-Lewis followed up a wind assisted 100m in 10.39 with his second best 400m of 46.22. He was a tenth of a second outside his best and was knocking on the door of the New Zealand record of 46.09. But for the windy conditions he may have had a crack at the record.

“There was a big wind on the first 100m. I had run the 100m earlier with a tail wind and I saw green after that race and it was playing on my mind a bit in the 400m, so I didn’t go out as hard as I should have,” said Revell-Lewis.

His next 400m will be at the Capital Classic meeting in Wellington on January 29.

“Hopefully that will give me some good ranking points for the Tokyo World Championships.”

Zoe Hobbs in her first 100m since racing in New York in September, had an impressive season opener with a wind assisted 11.21 after earlier winning the 60m in 7.15.

Mark Lett improve by one centimetre on his New Zealand masters M60 pole vault record clearing 3.21m.

Results:

Men:

60m: Zach Saunders (Pakuranga) and Hayato Yoneto (Aspiring) 6.92, Kadin Taylor (Waitakere) 6.95.

100m: Lex Revell-Lewis (Waitakere) 10.39 +3.5, Yoneto 10.44, Taylor 10.52, Saunders 10.54.

400m: Revell-Lewis 46.22, Saunders 48.87, Blake Wood (NHB) 48.88 PB, Charles Howlet (ACA) 49.80 PB.

1500m: James Reid (Waitakere) 4:05.18, Ben Ruthe (Tauranga) 4:10.33, Steve Rees-Jones (Cambridge) 4:22.38.

110m H 1.067m Nathan Browne (Hamilton) 15.88 +1.9 PB. .991m Noah Retford (Pakuranga) 14.79. .914m Rianco Haggard (Pakuranga) 14.76, Su Daequan (ACA) 14.95, Connor Brady (Takapuna) 15.59.

Shot put: 7.26kg Junior Lupena (Pakuranga) 10.39m. 6kg Jean-Louis Potgieter (Takapuna) 12.14m PB. 5kg Connor Brady (Takapuna) 14.31m.

Discus throw: 2kg; Junior Lupena (Pakuranga) 30.47m, Jacob Potgieter (Takapuna) 24.92m. 1.75kg Jean-Louis Potgieter (Takapuna) 33.19m PB.

Triple jump: Zhan Bowden (NHB) 13.39m +1.9, Ed Leung (ACA) 13.15m +2.6, Daequan Su (ACA) 12.78m +2.0 PB.

Pole vault: Josh Tautari (NHB) 3.80m PB, Mark Lett (63) (NHB) 3.21m (NZ M60 record), Connor Brady (Takapuna) 2.90m.

Women:

60m: Zoe Hobbs (Waitakere) 7.15 +3.7, Kendra Scally (Waitakere) 7.53, Samantha Lathwood (Takapuna) 7.64.

100m: Hobbs 11.21 +3.7, Marielle Venida (Pakuranga) 11.67, Isabel Neal 11.82, Scally 11.84.

400m: Neal 55.20, Jordyn Blake (NHB) 55.87, Holly Rule (Waitakere) 56.94.

1500m: Denika Clooney (TTT) 4:46.16, Sophia Haines (ACA) 4:46.67, Daisy Ruthe (Tauranga) 4:52.30.

Shot put: 4kg Kate Hallie (Takapuna) 13.28m PB. 3kg Karmen Maritz (NHB) 13.65m.

Discus throw: Melelosaline Lose (Hamilton) 46.83m PB, Maritz 44.09m, Hallie 43.96m PB.

Triple jump: Elena Edgar-Nemec (NHB) 11.66m +2.8, also 11.40m +1.4 PB, Bella Davidson (Takapuna)m 9.80m +3.1, Maxine Chappell (Waitakere) 9.61m +1.3.

Pole vault: Hannah Adye (NHB) 3.90m PB, Elaine Zhai (NHB) 3.80m PB, Talaya Vorster (NHB) 3.50m.

Auckland Sprint Hurdles and Steeplechase Championships:

100m H . .991m Noah Retford (Pakuranga) 14.79. .914m Rianco Haggard (Pakuranga) 14.76, Su Daequan (ACA) 14.95, Connor Brady (Takapuna) 15.59. Women: .838 Celine Pearn (Waitakere) 14.10 +2.2. .762 India Nash (ACA) 15.98, Jetta McKenzie (ACA) 17.11.

110m H 1.067m Nathan Browne (Hamilton) 15.88 +1.9.

2000m St .762 Aleisha Jackson (Lynndale) 9:31.83.

3000m St .914 Toby Tasker (Whippets) 9:10.35 PB. Women .762 Caitlyn Marx (Pukekohe) 12:43.69.

Annual Sir John Walker Junior Mile: Sam Ruthe (Waikato BoP) 4:10.43 PB, Hamish Murray (Waikato BoP) 4:13.37 PB, Jake Lomas (Waikato BoP) 4:22.60.

Annual Millie Sampson Women under 23 Mile: Lisa Hellyer (Auckland) 4:56.49, Scarlett Robb (Auckland) 4:58.57, Nina Chalmers (Auckland) 5:01.82.

Para Athlete: Jaden Movold (NHB) T54 100m 17.16 +1.4, 1500m 3:56.79. Mitch Joynt (Riverhead) T64 60m 7.81 +3.5, 100m 11.93 +3.6. Zachary Orbell (Pakuranga) T35 60m 8.85 +2.8, 100m 14.22 +3.9. Kate Danaher (NHB) T37 60m 10.16 +0.2, 100m 15.74 +3.6. Gabrielle Wright (TTT) T54 100m 20.00 +3.6, 400m 74.65. Charli Gardiner-Hall (Waiuku) F37 SP 7.62m, DT 23.81m.