Excessive schooler runs sub-4 minute mile, breaks report that had stood since 1965

Gary Martin, a senior at Archbishop Wooden Excessive Faculty Warminster, Penn., broke a prestigious monitor and subject file at the Pennsylvania Catholic League Championship on Monday by running a mile in beneath four minutes. Martin's run broke a report that had stood for almost 60 years.

Martin ran a mile in 3:57:98 with out the help of a pacer, breaking a file that had been set by Jim Ryun in 1965.

Ryun became the primary excessive schooler to run a mile in underneath 4 minutes in 1964, then broke his own file five instances earlier than graduating. Ryun's time of file was 3:58.3, a mark which Martin broke by lower than a second.

Martin is now the 14th American high school athlete to break 4 minutes, and his time now ranks third all-time in out of doors runs. It should be famous, though, that Ryun was the one athlete to take action in excessive school-only competitors, without the use of a pacer.

Martin's run was a significant milestone he prepares to attend the College of Virginia upon commencement. Speaking about his long-term objectives, Martin hopes to turn out to be an Olympic athlete.

"I would like to suppose that it's not crazy for me to say that it is a dream now," Martin informed CBS Information. "Obviously, I am still a protracted methods away and have some work to do, however I'm assured in my means. I've the dream, now I just have to put the work in and chase it."

Primarily based on his beating Ryun's mark, Martin's goals could very nicely be in attain. After his document run within the Nineteen Sixties, Ryun went on to compete in three Olympic finals, profitable silver in 1500m through the 1968 Mexico City Olympics.