Excessive 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 area report on the Pennsylvania Catholic League Championship on Monday by operating a mile in beneath 4 minutes. Martin's run broke a report 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 grew to become the first excessive schooler to run a mile in underneath four minutes in 1964, then broke his personal report 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 four minutes, and his time now ranks third all-time in out of doors runs. It ought to be famous, although, that Ryun was the one athlete to do so in excessive school-only competitors, without the usage of a pacer.

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

"I'd prefer to think that it's not crazy for me to say that it's a dream now," Martin advised CBS Information. "Clearly, I'm still a protracted ways away and have some work to do, but I am assured in my potential. 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 dreams might very nicely be in reach. After his document run in the 1960s, Ryun went on to compete in three Olympic finals, profitable silver in 1500m through the 1968 Mexico Metropolis Olympics.