Ryun World Beater
Friday, June 23, 1967
In Bakersfield, California at the AAU Championships, Jim Ryun betters his own outdoor mile world record by two-tenths of a second with a time of 3.51:10. (Looking back on that race, Ryun remembered it being “one of the easiest races [he] ever ran” and wondered how much faster he might have run it if he had planned his race with a new world mark in mind.) A few weeks later, he set yet another world record when he ran 1,500-meters in 3:33.1.
