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

Gary Martin, a senior at Archbishop Wooden Excessive Faculty Warminster, Penn., broke a prestigious monitor and area record at the Pennsylvania Catholic League Championship on Monday by running 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 with out assistance from a pacer, breaking a file that had been set by Jim Ryun in 1965.

Ryun became the first high schooler to run a mile in under 4 minutes in 1964, then broke his personal report 5 occasions before graduating. Ryun's time of file was 3:58.3, a mark which Martin broke by lower than a second.

Martin is now the 14th American highschool athlete to break four minutes, and his time now ranks third all-time in out of doors runs. It needs to be famous, though, that Ryun was the only athlete to take action in excessive school-only competitors, with out using a pacer.

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

"I might like to suppose that it's not crazy for me to say that it's a dream now," Martin informed CBS News. "Clearly, I am still a protracted ways away and have some work to do, but I am confident in my skill. I've the dream, now I simply need to put the work in and chase it."

Primarily based on his beating Ryun's mark, Martin's dreams might very nicely be in reach. After his report run within the Nineteen Sixties, Ryun went on to compete in three Olympic finals, winning silver in 1500m throughout the 1968 Mexico City Olympics.