Karl Paranya was the first NCAA Division III athlete

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 to break 4 minutes for the mile. He did this in the spring of 1997, running 3:57.6 on Haverford College

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's outdoor track. Marcus O'Sullivan

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, one of three men ever to run over 100 sub-4 minute miles, paced Paranya in this record breaking run See the race on youtube.

On February 6, 2000, at the Boston Indoor Games, Paranya, along with Joey Woody

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, Rich Kenah

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 and David Krummenacker

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' is a professional track athlete.- Background :Krummenacker graduated from Las Cruces High School in New Mexico in 1993 where he won several state track titles and also played on the basketball team....

 set a current Indoor World Record in the men's 4x800-meter relay, posting a time of 7:13.94. This record cut nearly four seconds off the previous mark, held by the Soviet Union for nearly thirty years. At the date this addendum was written, Paranya's best time in the mile was 3:54.83 posted on May 30, 1999 in Eugene Oregon, the 225th fastest mile in history.

He ran in the 2000 United States Olympic Trials (track and field)

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