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Jim Ryun. James Ronald Ryun (born April 29, 1947) is an American former Republican politician and Olympic track and field athlete, who at his peak was widely considered the world's top middle-distance runner.
The men's 1500 metres event at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City was held on 18 to the 20 of October. Fifty-four athletes from 37 nations competed. [1] The maximum number of athletes per nation had been set at 3 since the 1930 Olympic Congress. The event was won by Kenyan Kip Keino, who beat World record holder Jim Ryun, who struggled to ...
A four-minute mile is the completion of a mile run (1.6 km) in four minutes or less. It translates to a speed of 15 miles per hour (24 km/h). [1] It is a standard of professional middle distance runners in several cultures. The first four-minute mile is usually attributed to the English athlete Roger Bannister, who ran it in 1954 at age 25, in ...
Ryun was a speechwriter for President George W. Bush. He is the founder and president of American Majority, a Virginia-based conservative political training institute allied with the Tea Party movement. The group was founded in 2008. Its 501(c)(4) affiliate is American Majority Action, of which Ryun was CEO.
Most notably, Shively broke Jim Ryun’s 58-year-old state indoor mile record and holds the state’s fastest 5,000-meter time for a high school runner. His career-best mile time of 4 minutes, 1.4 ...
1500 m. 2004. 1500 m. Alan Webb (born January 13, 1983) is an American former track and field athlete and former triathlete. He held the American national record in the mile, with a time of 3 minutes 46.91 seconds, from July 2007 to September 2023. Webb represented the United States at the 2004 Summer Olympics in the men's 1500-meters race.
Trump awards the Presidential Medal of Freedom to a three-time Olympian and former GOP congressman from Kansas; Jim Ryun and his son Ned join ‘Fox & Friends Weekend.’
He’s about a year younger than middle-distance runner Jim Ryun, who competed in 1964 at 17 years, 137 days old. The teenager seems to be enjoying his Olympic experience so far, ...