Overview
- Ruthe ran 3:48.88 to win the John Thomas Terrier Classic invitational mile at Boston University, passing Belgian Pieter Sisk in the final 100 meters.
- The performance is an under-18 world indoor record and also eclipses Sir John Walker’s New Zealand mile mark of 3:49.08 set in 1982, according to Athletics New Zealand.
- World Athletics lists the time as the 11th-fastest indoor mile on record, with the indoor world record standing at Jakob Ingebrigtsen’s 3:45.14.
- The record came after a roughly 50-hour trip from New Zealand and was Ruthe’s first race on an indoor track.
- Recent milestones include a 3:53.83 outdoor mile last week for an age-16 world best and a 3:58.35 mile at 15 to become the youngest known sub-four miler.