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

Gary Martin, a senior at Archbishop Wood High College Warminster, Penn., broke a prestigious monitor and area document on the Pennsylvania Catholic League Championship on Monday by running a mile in below four minutes. Martin's run broke a document that had stood for nearly 60 years.

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

Ryun became the first high schooler to run a mile in below 4 minutes in 1964, then broke his own document 5 instances earlier than graduating. Ryun's time of file was 3:58.3, a mark which Martin broke by less than a second.

Martin is now the 14th American highschool athlete to break 4 minutes, and his time now ranks third all-time in outdoor runs. It ought to be famous, although, that Ryun was the only athlete to take action in excessive school-only competition, without the use of a pacer.

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

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

Based mostly on his beating Ryun's mark, Martin's goals might very well be in attain. After his document run within the Nineteen Sixties, Ryun went on to compete in three Olympic finals, winning silver in 1500m throughout the 1968 Mexico City Olympics.