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

Gary Martin, a senior at Archbishop Wood High Faculty Warminster, Penn., broke a prestigious monitor and field file 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 almost 60 years.

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

Ryun became the first excessive schooler to run a mile in underneath 4 minutes in 1964, then broke his own file five times before graduating. Ryun's time of report was 3:58.3, a mark which Martin broke by less 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 noted, though, that Ryun was the one athlete to take action in high school-only competitors, without the usage of 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 change into an Olympic athlete.

"I'd prefer to suppose that it's not crazy for me to say that it's a dream now," Martin informed CBS News. "Clearly, I am nonetheless a protracted methods away and have some work to do, but I'm confident in my potential. I've the dream, now I simply should put the work in and chase it."

Primarily based on his beating Ryun's mark, Martin's goals may very properly be in attain. After his file run in the Nineteen Sixties, Ryun went on to compete in three Olympic finals, successful silver in 1500m during the 1968 Mexico Metropolis Olympics.