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Additionally, high-school competition is conducted under slightly different rules, which have evolved over time. For example, in 1980, high schools converted their running distances from Imperial (yards) to metric, but instead of running conventional international distances like 1500 metres in place of the mile run, a more equitable but non ...
The track opened in the 1950s as a dirt quarter-mile run by several organizations as Oregon Legion Speedway. Sam Bartus purchased the track in 1963 and paved the track. In 1969, he tore down the quarter-mile track and built a state of the art high-banked half-mile oval and named it "Capital Super Speedway". [1]
Alan Webb, the high school record holder. This is a list of American high school students who have run a four-minute mile since the feat was first accomplished in 1964.. The first person to run the mile (1,760 yards, or 1,609.344 metres) in under four minutes was Roger Bannister in 1954, in a time of 3:59.4. [1]
As fall sports concluded, Central Wisconsin athletes left it all between the lines. Here are the top prep performances from Oct. 14-21. Central Wisconsin high school athletes put on a show in fall ...
Gabe Jennings (born January 25, 1979, in Forks of Salmon, California) is an American Olympian and semi-retired middle-distance runner.As a student at Madison East High School in Madison, Wisconsin, Jennings won nine state titles in the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association (WIAA) and, as of 2022, still holds the 1600 meter record in the WIAA Division 1 with his 1997 time of 4:04.97.
Whitefish Bay High School has been named Wisconsin’s best high school, according to U.S. News & World Report’s 2025 rankings.
From a triple-double in the NBA to the NCAA women's soccer tournament, these Wisconsin athletes have been having a good week or two. Ten former Wisconsin high school athletes shining on college ...
It is a standardized event in track meets conducted by the NFHS in American high school competition, often being colloquially referred to as "the mile". When the organization went through metrication , finalized with their 1980 rule book, the 4 lap around a 440 yard, imperial -measured mile run, was replaced by the closest metric distance, 4 ...