Editing Jim Ryun (section)

===Early years===
In 1964, as a high school junior at [[Wichita East High School]], Ryun became the first high school athlete to run a mile in under four minutes in the time of 3:59.0, when he took eighth place at the 1964 California Relays, the last under four minutes in a historic mass finish under 4:00.
His time of 3:55.3, set winning the 1965 AAU Championship race ahead of Olympic gold medalist and former WR holder [[Peter Snell]], was a high school record that stood for 36 years. Ryun ran five subfour-minute miles while in high school including the first subfour-minute mile run in a high school event, a 3:58.3, at the 1965 Kansas HS state meet. As a high school senior, he was voted the fourth-best miler in the world by ''[[Track & Field News]]''. [[ESPN.com]] named him the best high school athlete of all time, beating out people such as [[Tiger Woods]] and [[LeBron James]].<ref name="best_high_school_athletes_espn">{{cite web |title=The List: Best high school athletes ever |publisher=ESPN |url=http://www.espn.com/page2/s/list/highschool.html}}</ref> He was ''Track and Field News'' "High School Athlete of the Year" in 1965.<ref name="hs_boys_athletes_of_the_year_archive_org">{{cite magazine |title=High School Boys Athletes of the Year |magazine=Track & Field News |url=https://trackandfieldnews.com/index.php/component/content/article/35-stats/2114-t-fn-boys-hs-aoy |access-date=August 11, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170810170401/https://trackandfieldnews.com/index.php/component/content/article/35-stats/2114-t-fn-boys-hs-aoy |archive-date=August 10, 2017 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }}</ref>