Faith Kipyegon Partners With Nike To Run Sub-Four-Minute Record
Faith Kipyegon, a three-time Olympic 1500m winner, will seek to become the first woman to run a sub-four-minute mile.
The Kenyan, 31, will make the attempt on June 26 in Paris.
It will not be regarded as an official record since Kipyegon is expected to use a team of rotating pacemakers as well as Nike’s technologically upgraded trainers and equipment.
Kipyegon set the current official women’s mile world record of four minutes and 7.64 seconds in 2023, so she’d need to cut more than seven seconds.
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“I want this attempt to say to women, ‘You can dream and make your dreams valid. This is the way to go as women, to push boundaries and dream big.”
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“I’m a three-time Olympic champion. I’ve achieved World Championship titles. I thought, ‘What else?’ Why not dream outside the box?” Kipyegon said.
“I want this attempt to say to women, ‘You can dream and make your dreams valid’.”
Kipyegon became the first woman to win the 1500m gold medal at three consecutive Olympics with her victory in Paris last year, and she still owns the world record in that distance.
She holds three world 1500m titles and earned the 5,000m gold medal at the 2023 World Championships.
She earned five gold medals after giving birth to her daughter Alyn in 2018.
“Becoming a mother has changed my entire mental attitude,” she said. “You have to engage yourself; you have to show your child the way.”
Last month, I chatted with @ShalayaKipp about the research published in Royal Society Open Science that modeled Faith Kipyegon’s energy output across multiple pacing strategies and determined she could go as fast as 3:59.37—the exact time Bannister clocked in 1954.
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Roger Bannister of Britain was the first man to run a sub-four-minute mile in May 1954, and his compatriot Diane Leather was the first woman to do so later that month.
Moroccan Hicham El Guerrouj holds the men’s world record of 3:43.13, which he set in 1999.
In October 2019, Kipyegon’s fellow Kenyan, Eliud Kipchoge, became the first person to complete a marathon in under two hours, surpassing the record by 20 seconds.
However, it is not recognised as the official marathon world record because it was not in open competition and featured a team of rotating pacemakers.
Faith Kipyegon Partners With Nike To Run Sub-Four-Minute Record
