Jim Beatty Track & Field News & Bio

Name: Jim Beatty Hometown: Charlotte, NC High School: Central Born: October 28, 1934 (91) Notes: Track & Field; 1st person to run indoor sub-4-minute mile; 1960 Olympian

Floyd Simmons Inducted Into N.C. High School TF/XC Hall Of Fame
Two-time Olympic decathlon bronze medalist Floyd "Chunk" Simmons has been inducted into the North Carolina High School Track & Field and Cross Country Hall of...
Thu Jan 8, 2026

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...
Thu Feb 10, 2022

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...
Mon Jun 28, 2021

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...
Tue Dec 24, 2019

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...
Mon Jun 4, 2018

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