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 monitor and discipline file at the Pennsylvania Catholic League Championship on Monday by working a mile in below 4 minutes. Martin's run broke a record that had stood for nearly 60 years.

Martin ran a mile in 3:57:98 with out assistance from a pacer, breaking a document that had been set by Jim Ryun in 1965.

Ryun grew to become the primary excessive schooler to run a mile in under 4 minutes in 1964, then broke his own report 5 occasions earlier than graduating. Ryun's time of record was 3:58.3, a mark which Martin broke by lower than a second.

Martin is now the 14th American high school athlete to interrupt 4 minutes, and his time now ranks third all-time in out of doors runs. It must be famous, although, that Ryun was the one athlete to take action in excessive school-only competition, with out the use of a pacer.

Martin's run was a serious milestone he prepares to attend the University of Virginia upon commencement. Talking about his long-term objectives, Martin hopes to become an Olympic athlete.

"I might prefer to think that it's not loopy for me to say that it is a dream now," Martin advised CBS Information. "Obviously, I am still an extended ways away and have some work to do, however I'm assured in my means. I have the dream, now I simply have to put the work in and chase it."

Primarily based on his beating Ryun's mark, Martin's dreams might very effectively be in reach. After his document run within the Nineteen Sixties, Ryun went on to compete in three Olympic finals, profitable silver in 1500m in the course of the 1968 Mexico Metropolis Olympics.