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

Gary Martin, a senior at Archbishop Wooden High Faculty Warminster, Penn., broke a prestigious monitor and discipline record on the Pennsylvania Catholic League Championship on Monday by working a mile in beneath 4 minutes. Martin's run broke a report that had stood for practically 60 years.

Martin ran a mile in 3:57:98 with out the aid of a pacer, breaking a document that had been set by Jim Ryun in 1965.

Ryun became the first excessive schooler to run a mile in under four minutes in 1964, then broke his personal record 5 instances earlier than graduating. Ryun's time of record was 3:58.3, a mark which Martin broke by lower 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 outdoor runs. It ought to be famous, though, that Ryun was the one athlete to take action in high school-only competition, without using a pacer.

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

"I'd prefer to think that it is not crazy for me to say that it's a dream now," Martin informed CBS News. "Clearly, I'm still a protracted ways away and have some work to do, but I am assured in my ability. 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 could very properly be in attain. After his report run in the Nineteen Sixties, Ryun went on to compete in three Olympic finals, winning silver in 1500m in the course of the 1968 Mexico City Olympics.