Sam Tanner

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Sam Tanner
File:Sam Tanner 2023 (cropped).jpg
Sam Tanner in 2023
Personal information
Born (2000-08-24) 24 August 2000 (age 25)
Papamoa, New Zealand
Height1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight56 kg (123 lb)
Sport
CountryNew Zealand
SportTrack and field
Event(s)
Middle-, long-distance running

Samuel Tanner (born 24 August 2000)[1] is a New Zealand middle- and long-distance runner specialising in the 1500 metres. He is Māori; his iwi affiliation is Ngāpuhi.[2] Tanner is the New Zealand indoor record holder for the 1500 metres.

Career

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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[3][4] He was confirmed on the New Zealand team for the delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympics in April 2021.[5] At the Games, he failed to make it beyond the heats with a time of 3:43.22.[1]

In June 2022, Tanner won the Oceania Athletics Championships 1500m title.[6] 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.[1] In August, he finished sixth in the Birmingham Commonwealth Games men's 1500m 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.[7]

On 28 January 2023, Tanner lowered his personal best time for the mile by 0.41s to record 3:54.56 in regaining the New Zealand national title at the Cook's Classic in Whanganui.[8] 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.[1]

Selected for the 1500m at the 2023 World Athletics Championships, he reached the semi-finals.[9]

In January 2024, Tanner retained the New Zealand national title in the mile at the Cook's Classic in Whanganui.[10]

In 2024, he was selected to compete for New Zealand at the 2024 Summer Olympics in the 1500m race.[11][12] Tanner finished 13th in heat 3 with a time of 3:39.87, then 13th in heat 2 of the repecharge (3:40.71), failing to qualify for the semi-finals.[13][14]

On 9 March 2025 Tanner retained the New Zealand national senior men's 1500m title at Dunedin's Caledonian Ground, finishing first in a dead heat with Sam Ruthe in a time of 3:44.31.[15] In September 2025, he competed at the 2025 World Championships in Tokyo, Japan, without advancing to the semi-finals.[16][17]

Personal bests

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References

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