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

Gary Martin, a senior at Archbishop Wooden High College Warminster, Penn., broke a prestigious monitor and field file on the Pennsylvania Catholic League Championship on Monday by running 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 with out assistance from a pacer, breaking a file that had been set by Jim Ryun in 1965.

Ryun turned the primary high schooler to run a mile in underneath four minutes in 1964, then broke his own document 5 times earlier than graduating. Ryun's time of record was 3:58.3, a mark which Martin broke by less 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 outside runs. It should be famous, although, that Ryun was the only athlete to do so in high school-only competitors, with out the use of 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 grow to be an Olympic athlete.

"I would wish to think that it's not loopy for me to say that it's a dream now," Martin informed CBS Information. "Obviously, I'm nonetheless an extended ways away and have some work to do, but I am confident in my capacity. I have the dream, now I simply must put the work in and chase it."

Based mostly on his beating Ryun's mark, Martin's goals could very well be in attain. After his file run in the 1960s, Ryun went on to compete in three Olympic finals, profitable silver in 1500m in the course of the 1968 Mexico Metropolis Olympics.