Jim Ryun Autographs
James Ronald Ryun (born April 29, 1947) is an American former Republican politician and Olympic track and field athlete, who at his peak was widely considered the world's top middle-distance runner. He won a silver medal in the 1500 m at the 1968 Summer Olympics, and was the first high school athlete to run a mile in under four minutes. He is the last American to hold the world record in the mile run. Ryun later served in the United States House of Representatives from 1996 to 2007, representing Kansas's 2nd congressional district.
I couldn't do anything else. When you're cut from the church baseball team, the junior high basketball team, and you can't make the junior high track and field team ...\nI'd go to bed at night and I'd say, "Dear God, please help me do better at sports and let me find a good sport I am good at" I found myself trying out for the cross-country team and running two miles even though I'd never run that distance before. All of a sudden, I made the team, I got a letter jacket, and I started thinking there's a girlfriend behind the letter jacket. But that's how it all began.
In 1964, as a high school junior at Wichita East High School, Ryun became the first high school athlete to run a mile in under four minutes in the time of 3:59.0, when he took eighth place at the 1964 California Relays, the last under four minutes in a historic mass finish under 4:00. His time of 3:55.3, set winning the 1965 AAU Championship race ahead of Olympic gold medalist and former WR holder Peter Snell, was a high school record that stood for 36 years. Ryun ran five sub four-minute miles while in high school including the first sub four-minute mile run in a high school event, a 3:58.3, at the 1965 Kansas HS state meet. As a high school senior, he was voted the fourth-best miler in the world by Track & Field News. ESPN.com named him the best high school athlete of all time, beating out people such as Tiger Woods and LeBron James. He was Track and Field News "High School Athlete of the Year" in 1965.
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Current items with a signature of Jim Ryun
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Traded items with a signature of Jim Ryun
The most expensive item with a signature of Jim Ryun (The Jim Ryun Story **RARE Signed by JIM RYUN**) was sold in January 2026 for $156.98 while the cheapest item (Jim Ryun Signed Signed 4X5 Cut Olympic Runner Insc Auto JSA) found a new owner for $0.99 in December 2019. The month with the most items sold (5) was January 2026 with an average selling price of $32.48 for an autographed item of Jim Ryun. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in September 2025 with $89.79 and the month that saw the lowest prices with $3.00 was December 2024. In average, an autographed item from Jim Ryun is worth $25.98.
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