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INDIANAPOLIS
- Alan Webb setting the U.S. boys' high school mile record
in 2001 was honored by USA Track & Field on Thursday as the
23rd greatest
moment in U.S track and field in
the last 25 years.
Webb set the
U.S. men's high school mile record time of 3 minutes, 53.43
seconds in the Bowerman mile at the 2001 Prefontaine Classic
at historic Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon.
As an
18-year-old senior at South Lakes High School in Reston,
Va., Webb broke Jim Ryun's 36-year-old high school mile
record of 3:55.3 by nearly two seconds. Clicking off even
split times, Webb ran at the back of the pack through three
laps before using a blazing effort on the final lap to place
fifth overall. His performance was the best time by an
American on U.S. soil in the mile since Richie Boulet ran
3:53.26 at the 1998 Prefontaine Classic.
In January of
2001, Webb became the first high-schooler ever to run a
sub-four minute mile indoors at the New Balance Games in New
York City (3:59.86) and the first prep athlete to run a
sub-four minute mile since Marty Liquori did it outdoors in
1967.
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