Zoe Hobbs & Sam Ruthe Book Diamond League Starts
Joining Zoe in Monaco will be 2024 Olympic High Jump Champion, Hamish Kerr. Kerr returns to the Diamond League circuit after a short break on New Zealand shores. Kerr headlines the meet as the returning 2024 champion.
Now 16-year-old Sam Ruthe joins Sam Tanner in the international mile at the Prefontaine Classic in Eugene USA. Ruthe aims to be the youngest ever to break 4 minutes in the mile on USA soil, a record currently held by Jakob Ingebrigtsen. While the international mile is technically the B race at the meet, with the Bowerman Mile the headline mile, the field is not short of quality. Featuring 3:50 miler Cooper Teare, USA's top high-schooler Owen Powell. George Beamish won this race in 2021, when he kicked down a celebrating Craig Engels for a 'textbook George' moment.
Anna Grimaldi stars in an ever growing para-program at the Prefontaine Classic. Competing in a mixed-classification 100m para. She'll line up against USA's Brittni Mason who finished ahead of Grimaldi at the 2024 Paris Paralympic Games over the 100m T47. Mitch Joynt will also line up at the 50th edition of the Pre Classic in the 200m T62 / T64 Para.
3 July: Folksam Grand Prix Karlstad
World Athletics Continental Tour Bronze
Lauren Bruce - Hammer Throw
5 July: Prefontaine Classic (Eugene, USA)
Diamond League
Tom Walsh - Shot Put
Maddi Wesche - Shot Put
Anna Grimaldi - 100m Mixed Classification Para
Mitch Joynt - 200m T62 / T64 Para
Sam Tanner - International Mile
Sam Ruthe - International Mile
Watch live on the Diamond League Youtube Channel
7 July: Meeting International de Sotteville (Sotteville, France)
World Athletics Continental Tour Silver
Olivia McTaggart - Pole Vault
9 July: Cork City Sports (Cork, Ireland)
World Athletics Continental Tour Bronze
Lauren Bruce - Hammer Throw
11 July: Meeting Herculis (Monaco, Monaco)
Diamond League
Hamish Kerr - High Jump
Zoe Hobbs - 100m
Watch live on the Diamond League Youtube Channel
World University Games
The Athletics New Zealand contingent will compete in Germany at the 2025 FISU World University Games. The team includes NZ 400m record holder, Lex Revell-Lewis, 2024 World U20 Triple Jump Champion, Ethan Olivier, and 2024 NCAA 1500m silver medalist Kimberly May.
The competition schedule is currently TBC, with competition dates from 21-27 July.
Selected Men:
Lex Revell-Lewis – University of Auckland – 400m (Nuree Greenhalgh)
Tommy Te Puni – University of Auckland – 200m (Elena Brown)
Liam Back – Providence College – 5,000m (Ray Treacy)
Toby Gualter – North Carolina State University – 5,000m and 10,000m (Alistair Leslie)
Shay Veitch – University of Otago – Long Jump (Michael Beable)
Ethan Olivier – North West University Potchefstroom – Triple Jump (Wikus Olivier)
Nick Palmer – Massey University – Shot Put (Hayden Hall)
Anthony Barmes – Drake University – Hammer Throw (Mike Schofield)
Selected Women:
Maddie Wilson – University of Canterbury – Heptathlon (James Sandilands)
Hannah Adye – University of Auckland – Pole Vault (James Steyn)
Jordyn Blake – University of Auckland – Relay specialist, 200m* (James Mortimer)
Annalies Kalma – University of Nevada – 400m, Relay (Shantel Twiggs)
Isabel Neal – University of Auckland – 400m, Relay (James Mortimer)
Marielle Venida – University of Auckland – Relay, 100m, 200m (Kerry Hill)
Eva Pringle – University of Otago – 3000m SC, 5000m (Craig Kirkwood)
Peyton Leigh – Princeton University – 5000m (Brad Hunt)
Emma Douglass – Wake Forest University – 800m (Brandon Hazouri)
Kimberley May – Providence College – 1500m (Ray Treacy)
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