Next month in Japan, Lutkenhaus will become the youngest American ever to compete at the World Athletics Championships, surpassing former U.S. distance runner Mary Cain, who was 17 when she ran the ...

Ryun made his first Olympic team in 1964 aged 17 and the following year he beat reigning Olympic 800m and 1500m champion ...

Legendary Olympian Jim Ryun returns to Northeast Pennsylvania to offer words of inspiration at Rock Mountain Camp in Gibson, Susquehanna County. Ryun, a former Olympic silver medal winner and the ...

3rd 3:41.9 Burleson (3:41.2) and O’Hara (3:41.5) sealed their Tokyo spots as expected but the shock was young Ryun running down 3:56.1 miler Jim Grelle on the line to become the youngest ever US ...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump is awarding the nation’s highest civilian honour to Jim Ryun, a former Kansas congressman who was the first high school runner to clock a mile in under 4 minutes.

President Donald Trump will award Jim Ryun — an Olympic medalist who went on to served in the United States House of Representatives — with the nation's "highest civilian honor," according to the ...

Jim Ryun pauses during a television interview before President Donald Trump presents him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, at the White House, Friday, July 24, 2020, in Washington.

1966 — Jim Ryun becomes the first American to hold the record in the mile since 1937. With a time of 3:51.3 at Berkeley, Calif., Ryun shatters Michel Jazy’s mark of 3:53.6 by 2.3 seconds.

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump is awarding the nation’s highest civilian honour to Jim Ryun, a former Kansas congressman who was the first high school runner to clock a mile in under 4 minutes.