Usain Bolt: With a name like that, Usain Bolt fulfilled his life’s destiny! One of the most prolific Black runners and world record sprinter of all time was born in Jamaican and made a true mark in the running world by winning a medal in a sprinting race at age 14, while still in high school. In 2004, he was inducted into Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame and then into the Ontario Sports Hall of Fame in 2005. Donovan Bailey is to thank for Canada’s first-ever gold medal in the same games, in the men’s 100-meter race and another gold as part of the men’s 4 X 100-meter relay. His legacy continues in the way of the USA Track and Field highest accolade, named after him, which is reserved for the top track and field athlete.ĭonovan Bailey: Donovan Bailey, a Jamaican Canadian man, broke records in 1996 where he was recorded as the fastest human with an incredible 12.10 miles/second. These Olympic Games were set up by Hitler's repressive regime who planned to showcase “Aryan superiority,” which Jesse Owens quickly disproved.
In 2022, the KU Jayhawk was one of 30 inductees into the inaugural class of USTFCCCA’s Collegiate Athlete Hall of Fame.įUN FACT: Jim Ryun was the first athlete to set a Mile world record by running every lap under 60 seconds: (57.9, 57.6, 59.8, 56.0), clocking 3:51.3 in Berkeley, CA on July 17, 1966.įUN FACT II: Ryun is also the last American male to hold the outdoor Mile world record, his epic 3:51.1 in Bakersfield, CA on June 23, 1967.Jesse Owens: Regarded as “perhaps the greatest and most famous athlete in track and field history,” Jesse Owens was one of the early black runners who made history when he set three world records and tied another in less than 60 minutes at the 1935 Big Ten Track meet in Michigan, now known as the “greatest 45 minutes ever in the sport.” He went on to blow everyone out of the water in the 1936 Olympics in Germany by taking home four gold medals for America in the 100-meter race, long jump, 200 meters, and 4 X 100-meter relay. On Jin Washington, DC, Ryun received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor. In 2018, the legend was fittingly one of 30 athletes inducted into the National High School Track & Field Hall of Fame, inaugural class. House of Representatives from 1996 to 2007, representing the 2nd District in Kansas. In addition, he is the only American to be world-ranked #1 in the 1500m / Mile in back-to-back years (1966-67). Overall, Jim Ryun has appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated seven times, the most of any track & field athlete. In 1966, he won the Sullivan Award and was Sports Illustrated’s ‘‘Sportsman of the Year", and in 2003, selected Ryun as the best high school athlete ever over LeBron James and Tiger Woods. The Kansas Jayhawk finished his collegiate career with 4 NCAA Mile titles, 3 indoor (1967-69) and 1 outdoor (1967), and 5 NCAA crowns overall (also indoor 2 Mile, 1968). Ryun also set the indoor Mile WR (3:56.4, tie) in 1971 ( only one of 4 men to hold indoor & outdoor Mile WRs). Mile record lasted more than 14 years before Steve Scott broke the standard in 1981.
record for the outdoor Mile four times once as a high school senior, twice as a college freshman and once as a sophomore at Kansas University. Ryun was a five-time USA champion including three Mile titles and he set outdoor world records at 880, 1966 1500m, 1967 and Mile (twice), 1966-67.
Ryun also has run the most sub-4 minute Miles for a high schooler, five (5), including the first sub-4 in a high school-only race and the only to-date state meet (3:58.3 at the 1965 Kansas State Meet). Ryun, at age 17, was the first high school boy to break 4 minutes for the Mile (3:59.0) in 1964 at the Compton Relays (CA) and his 1965 high school Mile record of 3:55.3 lasted nearly 36 years before Alan Webb broke it at the Prefontaine Classic in 2001. Personal website: Jim Ryun, a three-time Olympian at 1500 meters, was a silver medalist at the 1968 Mexico City Games.
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