Former Whanganui athlete Geordie Beamish has run his first ever sub-four-minute mile at the 11th NYRR Millrose Games in the United States.
The Northern Arizona track and field team's current and future talent was on display at the games, with senior Beamish and incoming signee Nico Young shining bright on Saturday in the world's premier international indoor meet.
In the meet's grand finale, the historic Wanamaker Mile, Beamish set a new personal-best in the indoor mile with a time of 3:56.90. His time on Saturday crushed his previous PB set at the NCAA Indoor Championships last season by nearly 10 full seconds and was almost two seconds better than his altitude-converted time of 3:58.17 last month.
Beamish, the reigning indoor mile national champion, placed sixth overall in the Wanamaker Mile behind the second-fastest split (56.69) in the final 400 metres.
Only Chris O'Hare, this year's Wanamaker Mile champion, ran a faster last quarter-mile (56.66) by three-hundredths of a second. Beamish's final kick pushed him up from ninth to sixth at the finish line.