Last summer, 30-year-old Faith Kipyegon became the first athlete, male or female, to win three medals in the 1500m (all of them gold). Now, the four-time Olympic medalist has her sights set on another ...

Clad in featherlight spikes, a custom 3D-printed sports bra and an aerodynamic speed suit, Kenyan Olympian Faith Kipyegon will step onto a Paris track this week and try to become the first woman to ...

Faith Kipyegon’s bid to become the first woman to run a mile in under four minutes — which she will attempt Thursday in Paris — began in essence about nine months ago while she visited the Nike campus ...

Scientists modeled what it would take for a woman to run the mile in under four minutes. NPR's A Martinez talks with researcher Rodger Kram about the prospects for women's world record holder Faith ...

On Thursday, June 26 in Paris, Faith Kipyegon will try to make history on the track. In an Nike-supported event similar to those in which Eliud Kipchoge attempted to break the 2-hour marathon barrier, ...

7.65 seconds. That’s the amount of time that Kenyan Faith Kipyegon needs to shave from her world record time in order to become the first woman to run the mile in under 4 minutes. Kipyegon, a ...

PARIS — As Kenyan middle-distance star Faith Kipyegon attempts to become the first woman to run a sub-4-minute mile on Thursday, the world turns its attention to the elite company she hopes to join.

Until Faith Kipyegon, plenty of people didn’t believe that a woman could run a mile in under four minutes. Now, in partnership with Nike, Kipyegon is set to attempt the feat at Stade Sébastien ...

Last night, on a sunny Paris evening, Faith Kipyegon set out to do something that no woman has ever tried to do before: attempt to run a mile in under four minutes. Her quickest time previously was ...

Your cheat sheet for converting min/mile to min/km – and what paces you need to run to hit your 5K, 10K, half marathon and marathon targets ...

More than 70 years ago, Roger Bannister became the first person to run a mile in under 4 minutes. And, as runners continued to obsess over the mark, several thousand more followed in his wake. But all ...