High School Sports
Thursday, June 5, will mark the 50th anniversary of the first high school sub-four minute mile by Jim Ryun.
June 3, 2014
Olympics
In a mystical sort of way, Jim Ryun sees the low point of his career as the turning point of his life.
June 17, 1989
He was the best miler in the world for nine years.
May 25, 1993
Archives
Relationships: Some say ideas about dating espoused in an article by Olympian Jim Ryun harks back to an earlier time, when families seemed closer. Others liken the suggestions to arranged marriages.
Nov. 2, 1996
SEPT. 8, 1972: DAY 14 Ryun Takes Fall Jim Ryun, the king of middle-distance runners in 1968 after having gone undefeated for three years in the 1,500 meters and mile, finished second in Mexico City to Kenyan Kip Keino.
Sept. 8, 2002
Sports
Jim Ryun might have been America’s greatest mile runner, but not even he could have guessed that his high school record would go unchallenged for 25 years.
June 22, 1991
Obituaries
Bob Timmons, the hard-driving Kansas coach who helped mold Jim Ryun into one of America’s greatest and most celebrated mile runners, has died at the age of 91.
Aug. 6, 2015
With a lap to go, prospects weren’t good that the best miler in American history, Jim Ryun, would break his own world record of 3:51.3.
June 23, 1999
Between 1966 and 1975, Jim Ryun was the world’s best middle-distance runner.
April 16, 1986