CSB - Craig Kirkwood - NZ Athletics Champs - The Country Sport Breakfast

A rare dead heat in the 1500m at the national athletics championships in Dunedin has seen a tie in the track’s blue-riband event.

Olympian Sam Tanner and 15-year-old Sam Ruthe will share the title after this afternoon’s heart-stopping race at the Caledonian Ground in Dunedin, which ended in a photo finish.

It will be Tanner’s fifth national 1500m crown and Ruthe’s first at senior level.

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