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

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

Martin ran a mile in 3:57:98 without assistance from a pacer, breaking a document that had been set by Jim Ryun in 1965.

Ryun turned the first high schooler to run a mile in beneath 4 minutes in 1964, then broke his own file five times earlier than graduating. Ryun's time of document 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 famous, although, that Ryun was the one athlete to do so in high school-only competitors, with out the use of a pacer.

Martin's run was a significant milestone he prepares to attend the University of Virginia upon graduation. Speaking about his long-term goals, Martin hopes to change into an Olympic athlete.

"I'd prefer to assume that it's not loopy for me to say that it is a dream now," Martin advised CBS Information. "Clearly, I am nonetheless an extended ways away and have some work to do, however I'm confident in my skill. I have the dream, now I just have to put the work in and chase it."

Based on his beating Ryun's mark, Martin's dreams may very well be in reach. After his file run within the Nineteen Sixties, Ryun went on to compete in three Olympic finals, profitable silver in 1500m through the 1968 Mexico City Olympics.