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

Gary Martin, a senior at Archbishop Wood High Faculty Warminster, Penn., broke a prestigious observe and subject document at the Pennsylvania Catholic League Championship on Monday by working a mile in beneath 4 minutes. Martin's run broke a file that had stood for practically 60 years.

Martin ran a mile in 3:57:98 without the aid of a pacer, breaking a record that had been set by Jim Ryun in 1965.

Ryun turned the primary high schooler to run a mile in beneath four minutes in 1964, then broke his own record 5 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 high school 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 competition, with out using a pacer.

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

"I would wish to assume that it isn't crazy for me to say that it's a dream now," Martin informed CBS Information. "Obviously, I'm still a protracted methods away and have some work to do, but I'm confident in my capacity. I have the dream, now I simply must put the work in and chase it."

Primarily based on his beating Ryun's mark, Martin's goals may very effectively be in reach. After his document run in the Nineteen Sixties, Ryun went on to compete in three Olympic finals, winning silver in 1500m through the 1968 Mexico Metropolis Olympics.