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

Gary Martin, a senior at Archbishop Wooden High School Warminster, Penn., broke a prestigious observe and area file on the Pennsylvania Catholic League Championship on Monday by operating a mile in below 4 minutes. Martin's run broke a report that had stood for almost 60 years.

Martin ran a mile in 3:57:98 without assistance from a pacer, breaking a record 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 personal record 5 occasions earlier than graduating. Ryun's time of report was 3:58.3, a mark which Martin broke by less than a second.

Martin is now the 14th American high school athlete to interrupt four minutes, and his time now ranks third all-time in outside runs. It ought to be famous, though, that Ryun was the only athlete to do so in high school-only competitors, without 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 targets, Martin hopes to change into an Olympic athlete.

"I would like to think that it isn't loopy for me to say that it is a dream now," Martin told CBS News. "Clearly, I am still an extended ways away and have some work to do, but I am assured in my ability. I've the dream, now I simply need to put the work in and chase it."

Based on his beating Ryun's mark, Martin's goals might very properly be in attain. After his record run in the Nineteen Sixties, Ryun went on to compete in three Olympic finals, successful silver in 1500m in the course of the 1968 Mexico Metropolis Olympics.