Three-time Olympic gold medallist Religion Kipyegon will try to grow to be first girl to interrupt four-minute mile; Kenyan’s run in Paris on June 26 is not going to depend as world file; Kipyegon has present greatest girls’s mile time of 4:07.64; 31-year-old has received 1500m gold ultimately three Olympics
Final Up to date: 23/04/25 11:29pm
Religion Kipyegon is ‘dreaming exterior the field’ as she appears to be like to grow to be the primary girl to run a mile in below 4 minutes
Three-time Olympic gold medallist Religion Kipyegon will try to grow to be the primary girl to interrupt the four-minute mile when she runs in Paris on June 26.
The Kenyan – Olympic champion within the 1500m on the final three editions of the Video games – set the world file for the ladies’s mile of 4:07.64 in Monaco in July 2023.
Kipyegon will, due to this fact, must trim over seven seconds off her time to dip below 4 minutes however the rubber monitor at Stade Charléty – the place she has recorded her quickest 1500m and 5,000m runs – ought to help her.
The 31-year-old’s time is not going to be an official world file as she is probably going to make use of pacemakers and technologically-advanced equipment and sneakers.
Kipyegon mentioned: “I’m a three-time Olympic champion. I’ve achieved world championship titles. I thought: What else? Why not dream outside the box?”
“Faith’s goal is not just about her breaking a four-minute mile, and that’s what’s special,” Amy Jones Vaterlaus, vp on the Nike Sport Analysis Lab, informed ESPN.
“It is grounded in her legacy around confidence and ambition for women and girls. She says she wants them to see they can dream their dream.”
Britain’s Roger Bannister was the primary man to run a sub-four-minute mile, in Might 1954, whereas the present males’s world file for that distance is the three:43.13 set by Moroccan Hicham El Guerrouj in Rome in 1999.
