In April two BYU runners pulled off a feat that had been done in Utah only once before. Both Casey A. Clinger (’23) and K. Lucas Bons (’25) broke the 4-minute mile at the Robison Invitational. To account for Provo’s altitude, the NCAA would shave off nearly five additional seconds from their times—making Clinger’s and Bons’s finishes even more noteworthy.
3:59.02
Casey Clinger’s finishing time after pulling into the lead in the final 100-meter stretch.
3:59.28
Lucas Bons finished just a step behind Clinger for his second sub-4-minute mile ever.
1983
The year Douglas F. Padilla (BS ’83) ran the first and only previous sub-4-minute mile (3:57.23) in Utah before competing in the Olympics the following year. The BYU track legend was present in April to congratulate Clinger and Bons.
