.jpg) Sam Tanner in 2023 | |
| Personal information | |
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| Born | (2000-08-24) 24 August 2000 (age 24) Papamoa, New Zealand |
| Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) |
| Weight | 56 kg (123 lb) |
| Sport | |
| Country | New Zealand |
| Sport | Track and field |
| Event(s) | Middle-, long-distance running |
Samuel Tanner (born 24 August 2000) is a New Zealand middle- and long-distance runner specialising in the 1500 metres. He is Māori; his iwi affiliation is Ngāpuhi. Tanner is the New Zealand indoor record holder for the 1500 metres.
Career
A former surfer, Tanner set a national indoor 1500 metres record of 3:34.74 in February 2020 to secure the automatic Olympic qualification mark in Staten Island, New York He was confirmed on the New Zealand team for the delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympics in April 2021. At the Games, he failed to make it beyond the heats with a time of 3:43.22.
In June 2022, Tanner won the Oceania Athletics Championships 1500 m title. The following month, he was eliminated in the semi-finals of the event at the World Championships held in Eugene, Oregon with a time of 3:36.32. In August, he finished sixth in the Birmingham Commonwealth Games men's 1500 m final, setting a new personal best of 3:31.34, an improvement of 3 seconds, and becoming the second-fastest New Zealander of all time over the distance behind Nick Willis.
On 28 January 2023, Tanner lowered his personal best time for the mile by 0.41 s to record 3:54.56 in regaining the New Zealand national title at the Cook's Classic in Whanganui. He improved his mile best time twice in the following two weeks with 3:52.85 and then 3:51.70, both indoors in the United States.
Selected for the 1500m at the 2023 World Athletics Championships, he reached the semi-finals.
In January 2024, Tanner retained the New Zealand national title in the mile at the Cook's Classic in Whanganui.
In 2024, he was selected to compete for New Zealand at the 2024 Summer Olympics in the 1500m race.
Personal bests
- 800 metres – 1:48.35 (Christchurch 2022)
- 1500 metres – 3:31.34 (Birmingham 2022)
- 1500 metres indoor – 3:34.72 (New York, NY 2021) NR
- One mile – 3:49.51 (Eugene, Oregon 2023)
- One mile indoor – 3:51.70 (New York, NY 2023)
- 5000 metres – 13:32.74 (Auckland 2022)
- 10,000 metres – 31:26.86 (Wellington 2018)
References
- ^ "Samuel TANNER – Athlete Profile". World Athletics. Retrieved 1 January 2023.
- "Tokyo Olympics Day 11 (03/08): Māori athletes in action today". Te Karere, TVNZ. 3 August 2021.
- "How surfing has helped Tanner's development as a runner | PERFORMANCE | World Athletics". www.worldathletics.org.
- "Tokyo Olympics: Kiwi 1500m hope Sam Tanner reveals surprising secret to track success – surfing" – via www.newshub.co.nz.
- "SunLive – Sam Tanner heading to the Tokyo Olympics – The Bay's News First". www.sunlive.co.nz.
- "Hobbs and Doran break sprint records at Oceania Athletics Championships". inside the Games. 12 June 2022.
- Birmingham, Robert van Royen in (6 August 2022). "'Happiest sixth-placed getter ever': Sam Tanner eyes Nick Willis' NZ record after lifetime best". Stuff. Retrieved 8 August 2022.
- "Athletics: Elated athletes score personal bests despite miserable conditions at Whanganui's Cooks Classic". NZHerald.co.uk.
- "Men's 1500m Results: World Athletics Championships 2023". Watch Athletics. 20 August 2023. Retrieved 20 August 2023.
- Tweed, Mike (27 January 2024). "Athletics: Sam Tanner and Rebekah Aitkenhead triumph at Whanganui's Cooks Classic". NZHerald. Retrieved 29 January 2024.
- "Men's 1500m Results - Paris Olympic Games 2024 Athletics". Watch Athletics. 6 August 2024. Retrieved 28 August 2024.
- Kirkness, Luke (18 April 2024). "New Zealand announces strong athletics team for Paris 2024 Olympics featuring Hamish Kerr and George Beamish". NZ Herald. Retrieved 20 April 2024.
External links
- Washington Huskies bio
- Sam Tanner at World Athletics
- Sam Tanner at the New Zealand Olympic Committee
- Sam Tanner at Olympics.com
- Sam Tanner at Olympedia (archive)
| New Zealand national champions in men's 1500 m | |
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| Note: 1 mile or 1,609 metres before 1970 | |
| 1 mile |
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| 1500 m |
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| New Zealand national champions in men's 3000 m | |
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- 2000 births
- Living people
- New Zealand surfers
- New Zealand male middle-distance runners
- Ngāpuhi people
- Olympic athletes for New Zealand
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Commonwealth Games competitors for New Zealand
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
- Washington Huskies men's track and field athletes
- New Zealand expatriate sportspeople in the United States
- New Zealand Māori sportspeople
- Sportspeople from Tauranga
- United States collegiate record holders in athletics (track and field)
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2024 Summer Olympics
- New Zealand Athletics Championships winners
- 21st-century New Zealand sportsmen