Female Out of Stadium Athlete of the Year nominee ✨
Repost to vote for Peres Jepchirchir 🇰🇪 in the #AthleticsAwards.
Voting closes on Sunday 2 November at 11:59 PM CET.
Male Track Athlete of the Year nominee ✨
Repost to vote for Emmanuel Wanyonyi 🇰🇪 in the #AthleticsAwards.
Voting closes on Sunday 19 October at 11:59 PM CEST.
Female Track Athlete of the Year nominee ✨
Repost to vote for @Kipyegon_Faith 🇰🇪 in the #AthleticsAwards.
Voting closes on Sunday 19 October at 11:59 PM CEST.
Will Faith Kipyegon 🇰🇪 become the first woman to break 4 minutes in the mile?
She will be attempting the impossible tomorrow at the Stade Charléty in Paris, where she has set 2 World Records in the last two years .
The current World Record, which she set in 2023, is 4:07.64.
She is expected to have a mix of both male & female pacers, with World/Olympic medallists such as Grant Fisher, Elliot Giles, Georgia Hunter Bell, Halimah Nakaayi, Cooper Teare and Craig Engels seen training in Paris for the event.
To help with her pursuit of the running holy grail, she'll have:
– Custom 85g spikes (carbon plate, titanium pins)
– A 3D-printed suit with drag-reducing "aeronodes"
– A bra + headband engineered for airflow
She is training partners with marathon legend Eliud Kipchoge who broke the 2-hour barrier for the marathon in 2019, from prototype trainers and a laser pointer guiding his optimum position, to pace makers and a specially selected course.
One mission. One Faith Kipyegon 💙
The 4-minute mile. No woman has ever broken it.
Until now? 😶
📍 Stade Charléty, Paris
🕖 26 June | 19:15 CEST
#Breaking4
“The LORD shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow. ”
Deuteronomy 28:12 KJV
'Oh, that You would bless me indeed, and enlarge my territory, that Your hand would be with me, and that You would keep me from evil, that I may not cause pain!'