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

Gary Martin, a senior at Archbishop Wood High College Warminster, Penn., broke a prestigious observe and discipline document on the Pennsylvania Catholic League Championship on Monday by running a mile in below 4 minutes. Martin's run broke a record that had stood for practically 60 years.

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

Ryun became the first high schooler to run a mile in below four minutes in 1964, then broke his own report five times before graduating. Ryun's time of report was 3:58.3, a mark which Martin broke by lower than a second.

Martin is now the 14th American highschool athlete to interrupt 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 one athlete to do so in high school-only competitors, without using a pacer.

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

"I would prefer to assume that it's not loopy for me to say that it's a dream now," Martin told CBS Information. "Clearly, I am nonetheless a long methods away and have some work to do, but I'm assured in my means. I've the dream, now I just have to put the work in and chase it."

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