Australia's teenage middle distance sensation Cam Myers looks to have an Oceanian rival as, across the Tasman, New Zealand celebrates a phenom who's run his way into athletics folklore.
At the tender age of 15, Sam Ruthe became the youngest athlete in history to run a sub four-minute mile on Wednesday, some 71 years since Roger Bannister first achieved an athletic landmark once believed to have been impossible.
Ruthe, who looks like another great New Zealand miling superstar in the making like Jack Lovelock, Peter Snell and John Walker, smashed the landmark by two seconds at Mount Smart Stadium in Auckland, helped to a time of three minute 58.35 seconds by pacemakers.
