Waterford's First Four Minute Mile

aoa321

David McCarthy did it in the last few days, here it is ...

http://www.flotrack.org/videos/coverage/view_video/234643/148270-m-...

I'm probably just showing off my ignorance but I found it hard to believe that he was the first Waterford person to have done it, I would have assumed that the likes of Gerry Deegan or John Treacy (double world cross-country champion and Olympic marathon silver medalist) would have done it but David was the first, so congratulations to him.

Does anybody have a list of the 38 previous athletes who have achieved it.

Pherekydes

Here's the AAI list, not sure who's missing off it:

1 Mile
1 3.49.77 Ray Flynn 22.01.57 3 Oslo, NOR 07.07.82
2 3.49.78i Eamonn Coghlan 24.11.52 1 E. Rutherford, NJ, USA 27.02.83
3 3.50.62 Mark Carroll 15.01.72 7 Oslo, NOR 28.07.00
4 3.50.94i Marcus O'Sullivan 22.12.61 1 E. Rutherford, NJ, USA 13.02.88
5 3.51.06 Frank O'Mara 17.07.60 4 Rome, ITA 10.09.86
6 3.53.93 Niall Bruton 27.10.71 9 Oslo, NOR 05.07.96
7 3.54.48 Dave Taylor 07.03.59 4 Cork 13.07.83
8 3.54.62 James Nolan 27.01.77 9 Rieti, ITA, 07.09.03
9 3.54.63 Gerry O'Reilly 01.07.64 2 Villanova, PA, USA 14.06.86
10 3.54.68 Tommy Moloney 11.02.60 5 Cork 08.07.86
11 3.54.7 John Hartnett 07.06.50 3 Eugene, OR, USA 20.06.73
12 3.55.0 Jim McGuinness 21.09.51 4 Belfield, Dublin 11.07.77
13 3.55.04i Alistair Cragg 13.06.80 1 Fayetteville, AR, USA 21.01.06
14 3.55.4i Niall O'Shaughnessy 23.11.55 1 Columbia, NY, USA 28.01.77
15 3.55.82 Paul Donovan 11.07.63 3 Cork 03.07.84
16 3.56.36 Enda Fitzpatrick 28.04.65 6 Cork 09.07.85
17 3.56.78i Frank Conway 01.01.67 1 Allston, MA, USA 22.01.89
18 3.57.5 Ronnie Delany 06.03.35 3 Dublin 06.08.58
19 3.57.61 Gareth Turnbull 14.05.79 1 Philadephia, PA, USA 27.04.02
20 3.58.09 Ken Nason 29.03.72 3 Cork 24.06.95
21 3.58.1 Frank Murphy 21.05.47 4 Los Angeles, CA, USA 07.06.69
22 3.58.19 David Campbell 28.10.82 2 Wanganui, NZ 16.02.08
23 3.58.42 Sean O'Neill 10.12.63 4 Cork 07.07.87
24 3.58.54 Eugene Curran 00.00.64 10 Cork 08.07.87
25 3.58.71 Des English 06.06.67 4 Cork 25.06.94
26 3.58.96 Andrew Walker 06.05.77 2 San Francisco, CA, USA 29.10.00
27 3.58.99 Mark Christie 12.01.85 5 Crystal Palace, GBR 06.08.05
28 3.59.12 Jerry Kiernan 31.05.53 3 London, GBR 19.06.76
29 3.59.23 Shane Healy 05.10.68 7 Cork 25.06.94
30 3.59.24 Derek Graham 22.09.41 2 White City, London, GBR 20.08.66
31 3.59.4 i Kieran Stack 11.05.63 4 South Bend, IN, USA 06.02.88
32 3.59.48 James McIlroy 30.12.76 2 Solihull, GBR 05.09.98
33 3.59.52 Gary Murray 31.01.80 7 Crystal Palace, GBR 06.08.05
34 3.59.80 Basil Clifford 20.04.38 3 London, GBR 03.08.64
35 3.59.84 Seamus McCann 10.06.68 10 Cork 05.07.88

ChickenTikka

Interesting if you categorise it by decade:-

1950s 1
1960s 3
1970s 4
1980s 14
1990s 5
2000s 9

It portrays the standards of milers in this decade reasonably well ... whereas the common perception portrayed by the media and retired runners is that standards are in decline.

mrak

ChickenTikka wrote: »

Interesting if you categorise it by decade:-

1950s 1
1960s 3
1970s 4
1980s 14
1990s 5
2000s 9

It portrays the standards of milers in this decade reasonably well ... whereas the common perception portrayed by the media and retired runners is that standards are in decline.

That's a great observation.