Strength and conditioning coach Angus Ross helped him break a 30-year national 60 metre record in Canberra at the weekend.

Whelpton describes how Ross has improved his form.

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02 Feb: Teenage middle distance runner Samuel Ruthe's become the youngest man to win a national senior track and field title

30 Jan: New Zealand's triple jump brothers have made a solid start to the season at the Capital Classic athletics meet in Wellington

29 Jan: Athletics Australia takes on 'bold, new identity' with Australian Athletics rebrand

26 Jan: Sprinter Tiaan Whelpton has pointed to a new training regime as the key behind breaking a 30-year-old Athletics New Zealand national record

01 Jan: Double Olympic champion Beatrice Chebet has beaten the women's 5-kilometre world record with a time of 13 minutes 54 seconds at a road race in Barcelona

18 Dec: High Performance Sport New Zealand is putting faith in cycling in the next Olympic cycle - boosting funding for the sport by 770 thousand dollars, with canoe racing and athletics also seeing sizeable jumps in support

16 Dec: Hayden Wilde's encouraged - and excited - by the prospect of more gruelling races as part of a renewed push for an Olympic gold

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