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| Full name | James Tully Beatty | ||||||||||||||
| Born | October 28, 1934 (age 90) New York, New York, U.S. | ||||||||||||||
| Home town | Charlotte, North Carolina, U.S. | ||||||||||||||
| Spouse | Paulette Beatty | ||||||||||||||
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James Tully Beatty (born October 28, 1934, in New York, New York) is a former American track and field athlete and North Carolina politician. He is best remembered as the first person to break the four-minute mile barrier on an indoor track, when he ran 3:58.9 on February 10, 1962, at the Los Angeles Invitational in the Los Angeles Sports Arena in Los Angeles, California. He competed in the men's 5000 metres at the 1960 Summer Olympics.[1]
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Jim Beatty". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on April 18, 2020. Retrieved November 7, 2017.