Who was the first high school runner to break 4 minutes in the mile?

Jim Ryun was a Kansas high schooler when he became the first one to break the 4:00 barrier in the mile run in 1964, 10 years after Roger Bannister from England first attained that mark. He later broke the world record for the mile run, with 3:51.1 in 1967, while attending the University of Kansas, a record that stood for 8 years. He went on to serve as a Congressman from Kansas for many years. Tim Danielson and Marty Liquori were the second and third high school students to break 4:00 for the mile, and Matthew Maton was the most recent high school student to do so, in 2015. In all, 8 high school students have broken 4:00 for the mile run.

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Richard D. Boyle

Gigi , This question was easy for me. There will be questions that are easy for you that are impossible for me. That’s the nature of an international trivia club. The point is to answer what you know and hopefully learn something from the ones you don’t know. It’s a very rare question that everybody likes because many if not most questions reflect the writers’ nationality. We all write what we know. Be careful. Be safe. Best wishes.