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

Gary Martin, a senior at Archbishop Wooden High School Warminster, Penn., broke a prestigious observe and subject report at the Pennsylvania Catholic League Championship on Monday by operating a mile in below four minutes. Martin's run broke a file that had stood for practically 60 years.

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

Ryun became the primary excessive schooler to run a mile in beneath 4 minutes in 1964, then broke his personal document five times earlier than 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 highschool athlete to break four minutes, and his time now ranks third all-time in outside runs. It needs to be famous, though, that Ryun was the only athlete to take action in excessive school-only competition, without using a pacer.

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

"I would wish to think that it's not crazy for me to say that it's a dream now," Martin told CBS News. "Clearly, I am nonetheless an extended ways away and have some work to do, however I am confident in my capacity. I have 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 might very well be in attain. After his report run within the Nineteen Sixties, Ryun went on to compete in three Olympic finals, successful silver in 1500m throughout the 1968 Mexico City Olympics.