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

Gary Martin, a senior at Archbishop Wood High Faculty Warminster, Penn., broke a prestigious track and discipline report at the Pennsylvania Catholic League Championship on Monday by working a mile in underneath 4 minutes. Martin's run broke a file that had stood for nearly 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 became the primary excessive schooler to run a mile in below 4 minutes in 1964, then broke his own report 5 occasions 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 out of doors runs. It ought to be famous, though, that Ryun was the only athlete to take action in high school-only competition, with out using a pacer.

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

"I might prefer to suppose that it's not loopy for me to say that it is a dream now," Martin told CBS Information. "Obviously, I am nonetheless an extended ways away and have some work to do, but I'm confident in my means. I've the dream, now I just must put the work in and chase it."

Based mostly on his beating Ryun's mark, Martin's goals may very well be in reach. After his file run within the 1960s, Ryun went on to compete in three Olympic finals, winning silver in 1500m during the 1968 Mexico Metropolis Olympics.