True joins sub-4:00 club
Posted June 18th, 2007 at 12:40 PM by David Monti
Section: News & Results, Track & Field
Ben True became the latest American to break the four-minute barrier for the mile, clocking 3:59.99 at the USATF New England Outdoor Championships held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass. over the weekend.
True, who attended Greeley High School in Maine before embarking on his collegiate career at Dartmouth College in 2004, finished 28/100ths of a second ahead of Georgetown University’s Matt Debole. True’s previous best was 4:02.61 set last April.
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