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.

Early life
From Canberra, Myers currently attends Lake Ginnindera College.

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 Bankstown Athletics 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 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.

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2006 births
Living people
Australian male middle-distance runners
Sportspeople from Canberra
21st-century Australian people