Cameron Myers (born 9 June 2006) is an Australian

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athlete. In 2023, he broke the world record for the fastest mile by a sixteen year-old, and became the second youngest person in the world to ever have run a sub-four minute mile. Aged sixteen, he took the Australian national under-20 mile record. Myers broke

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's mile, 1500m and 3000m age-group records.

Early life

From Canberra, , Myers attends Lake Ginnindera College. From aged 10 he trained with Lee Bobbin. At age 14, Bobbin started training Myers with

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and his elite group including Olympic 1500-metre runner

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. He also runs for the Bankstown Track Club in Sydney.

Career

2022: Aussie 1 mile champ

Myers won the Albie Thomas 1 Mile Australian Championship on 5 December 2022, at The Crest in Sydney.

2023: 16yo and 18yo world-record holder

Myers broke

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's Australian under-18 record for the

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metres by more than three seconds when he ran 3:40.6 on 23 January 2023. In February 2023, Myers became the second youngest person in history to break the four-minute mile. Myers ran 3:55.44 seconds at Albert Park in Melbourne at the Maurie Plant Meet aged 16 years and 259 days. Myers was nine days older than

when he ran 3:58.07 in May 2017, but was more than two seconds faster. Speaking about breaking the world record for a 16-year-old Myers said: "I don't think it changes much for me. It is about how you progress to the open ranks. It's only an age world record. It's cool to have, but it's not the be-all and end-all." The time also broke the Australian u-20 record. In July 2023, Myers clocked a 1500m time of 3:33.26 at the

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event in

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. It was the fastest 1500m run by an U18 athlete ever, breaking the 3:33.72 set by Nicholas Kiptanui Kemboi of Kenya in 2006. In September 2023, he acted as pacemaker for Jakob Ingebrigtsen’s European record in the mile at the Diamond League final in

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2024

In February 2024, Myers won the men’s 1500m at the Adelaide Invitational with a time of 3:34:55. This was a new meeting record, two seconds ahead of the previous record set by

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in 1988. On 15 February 2024, he lowered his personal best at the John Landy Mile at Melbourne's Maurie Plant Meet to 3:52.44. On 22 February, at Bankstown's the Crest athletic track, Myers set a new record for an Australian running in Australia of 3.33.30 (beating the previous record set by

on 18 April 2021 at the Australian National Athletics Championships at the Sydney Olympic Park). In March 2024, he ran a new personal best and Australian U20 record time of 7:46.38 to win the Australian 3,000 metres national title in Sydney.

Personal life

A keen

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fan, he supports

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, and played himself as a youngster as a striker for Canberra Croatia and Gungahlin United.

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Myers, Cameron 2006 births Living people Australian male middle-distance runners Sportspeople from Canberra 21st-century Australian people