High 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 track and field file at the Pennsylvania Catholic League Championship on Monday by operating a mile in under four minutes. Martin's run broke a document that had stood for practically 60 years.

Martin ran a mile in 3:57:98 without assistance from a pacer, breaking a file that had been set by Jim Ryun in 1965.

Ryun became the primary excessive schooler to run a mile in below 4 minutes in 1964, then broke his own document 5 times 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 interrupt four minutes, and his time now ranks third all-time in outdoor runs. It needs to be famous, although, that Ryun was the one athlete to take action in excessive school-only competition, with out using a pacer.

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

"I might wish to suppose that it is not crazy for me to say that it is a dream now," Martin informed CBS Information. "Clearly, I'm still a protracted methods away and have some work to do, but I'm confident in my potential. I have the dream, now I just need to put the work in and chase it."

Based on his beating Ryun's mark, Martin's dreams could very nicely be in reach. After his record run in the Sixties, Ryun went on to compete in three Olympic finals, winning silver in 1500m during the 1968 Mexico City Olympics.