Three-time Olympic 1500m champion Religion Kipyegon is to try to grow to be the primary lady to run a sub-four minute mile.
The 31-year-old Kenyan will make the try in Paris on 26 June.
It is not going to be recognised as an official report as a result of Kipyegon is probably going to make use of a crew of rotating pacemakers and technologically superior trainers and package from her sponsor Nike.
Kipyegon set the present official girls’s mile world report of 4 minutes 7.64 seconds in 2023 so would want to shave off greater than seven seconds to attain the feat.
“I am a three-time Olympic champion. I’ve achieved World Championship titles. I assumed, ‘what else?’, why not dream exterior the field?” Kipyegon mentioned.
“I need this try and say to girls, ‘you may dream and make your desires legitimate’.”
Kipyegon grew to become the primary lady to win 1500m gold at three successive Olympics together with her success in Paris final 12 months and holds the world report over that distance. She additionally has three World 1500m titles and received 5,000m gold on the 2023 World Championships.
5 of these gold medals have been received after she gave delivery to her daughter Alyn in 2018.
“Turning into a mom has modified my total psychological angle,” she mentioned. “You must interact your self, you must present your little one the way in which.”
Britain’s Roger Bannister was the primary man to run a sub-four minute mile, attaining the mark in Could 1954, whereas compatriot Diane Leather-based was the primary girls to run sub-five minutes later that month.
Moroccan Hicham El Guerrouj holds the lads’s world report time of three:43.13 set in 1999.
In October 2019 Kipyegon’s fellow Kenyan Eliud Kipchoge grew to become the primary individual to run a marathon in beneath two hours, beating the mark by 20 seconds.
Nevertheless, it isn’t recognised because the official marathon world report as a result of it was not in open competitors and featured a crew of rotating pacemakers.
