# Cameron Myers

Cameron Myers (born 9 June 2006) is an Australian track and field 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 Jakob Ingebrigtsen's mile, 1500m and 3000m age-group records. In January 2025, he set a new world under-20 indoor record in the mile.

## Early life

From Canberra, Myers graduated from Lake Ginnindera College in 2024.
From aged 10 he trained with Lee Bobbin. At age 14, Bobbin started training Myers with Dick Telford and his elite group including Olympic 1500-metre runner Jye Edwards. He also runs for the Bankstown Track Club in Sydney.

## Career
### 2022

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

### 2023

Myers broke Ryan Gregson's Australian under-18 record for the 1500 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 Jakob Ingebrigtsen 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 Diamond League event in Silesia. 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 (3:43.73) at the Diamond League final in Eugene, Oregon.

### 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 Pat Scammell 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 Jye Edwards 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. Myers surpassed this mark at the Zatopek 10 meeting at Lakeside Stadium, Melbourne, on 14 December, where he ran 7:41.11.
In May 2024, in the Bowerman Mile at the Prefontaine Classic, Myers set a new personal best of 3:50.15.
He qualified fastest for the final of the 1500 metres at the 2024 World Athletics U20 Championships in Lima, Peru and in the final won the silver medal behind Abdisa Fayisa of Ethiopia.

### 2025

On 25 January, the Dr. Sander Invitational in New York, Myers took almost two seconds off the world indoor under-20 mile record, running 3:53.12 at the Dr Sander Invitational. The time improved the 3:55.02 previous record set by German Fernandez in 2009.
On 2 February 2025, he set a national record of 7:33.12 over 3000 metres at the New Balance Indoor Grand Prix.
On 8 February 2025, Myers broke his world indoor under-20 mile record by over 5 seconds, running 3:47.48 in the Wanamaker Mile at the Millrose Games in New York City. His time makes him the fourth fastest indoor mile runner in history, and is an Oceanian area record: both indoor and outdoor (equalling Ollie Hoare's outdoor record). En route, Myers set a new 1500m personal best of 3:32.67, which stands as the fastest under-20 indoor 1500m of all time.

## Personal life

A keen football fan, he played as a youngster as a striker for Canberra Croatia and Gungahlin United. He supports Premier League club Chelsea.