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Jim Beatty Track & Field News & Bio


Name:Jim Beatty
Hometown:Charlotte, NC
High School:Central
Born:October 28, 1934 (89)
Notes:Track & Field; 1st person to run indoor sub-4-minute mile; 1960 Olympian
Jim Beatty

60 Years Ago Today: Former UNC track star Jim Beatty runs the first indoor sub-4:00 mile
Jim Beatty, the NCAA 2M/5000 runner-up as a soph and junior at UNC, had run a 4:06.5 mile as a senior in 1956 but hadn’t...

Tar Heel Olympians: Jim Beatty, 1960
Born in New York, Jim Beatty moved to Charlotte as a child. As a young athlete, he trained as a boxer, and soon began to...

Four Tar Heels Elected to North Carolina High School Track and Field Hall of Fame
A group of four Tar Heels were elected Monday into the second class of the North Carolina High School Track & Field and Cross Country...

Dwight Clark, one of Charlotte's greatest pro athletes, has died
Dwight Clark, who starred at Charlotte’s Garinger High before scoring an iconic touchdown immortalized as “The Catch” for the San Francisco 49ers, died Monday of...

Jim Beatty, History Featured In Oxford American
Tar Heel legend Jim Beatty, the first man to ever run a sub-four minute indoor mile in 1962, is featured in a new online video...

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