High schooler runs sub-4 minute mile, breaks file that had stood since 1965

Gary Martin, a senior at Archbishop Wooden Excessive College Warminster, Penn., broke a prestigious observe and field record at the Pennsylvania Catholic League Championship on Monday by working a mile in below 4 minutes. Martin's run broke a document that had stood for almost 60 years.

Martin ran a mile in 3:57:98 without the aid of a pacer, breaking a report that had been set by Jim Ryun in 1965.

Ryun turned the primary excessive schooler to run a mile in under four minutes in 1964, then broke his own document 5 times before 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 highschool athlete to break 4 minutes, and his time now ranks third all-time in outside runs. It should be noted, although, that Ryun was the only athlete to do so in high school-only competitors, with out the use of a pacer.

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

"I'd prefer to think that it's not crazy for me to say that it's a dream now," Martin advised CBS News. "Obviously, I am still a long ways away and have some work to do, but I am confident in my capacity. I've the dream, now I just have to put the work in and chase it."

Based on his beating Ryun's mark, Martin's dreams might very effectively be in attain. After his document run in the Sixties, Ryun went on to compete in three Olympic finals, winning silver in 1500m throughout the 1968 Mexico Metropolis Olympics.