Meet the tempo staff for Religion Kipyegon's Breaking4 mile try

On the eve of Nike’s extremely anticipated Breaking4 try in Paris, Kenyan distance operating icon Religion Kipyegon is getting ready to turn into the primary lady in historical past to interrupt the four-minute mile. To perform the feat, she might want to shave 7.65 seconds off her present world document. Can she do it? We’ll discover out on June 26—however she received’t be doing it alone.

These 12 worldwide Nike athletes, together with a number of of Kipyegon’s Kenyan coaching companions, might be pacing her for Thursday’s historic try.

The pacers

Niels Laros (Netherlands)

2024 Olympic males’s 1,500m finalist (sixth)
World U20 document holder over 1,000 (2:14.37)
Mile PB: 3:48.93

Grant Fisher (U.S.A)

Two-time Olympic bronze medallist
American document holder over 5,000 and 10,000m
Mile PB: 3:59.38

Craig Engels (U.S.A.)

Stewart McSweyn (Australia)

2021 Olympic males’s 1,500m finalist (seventh)
4x Diamond League meet winner
Mile PB: 3:48.37

Jemma Reekie (Nice Britain)

2024 world indoor silver medallist (800m)
2021 Olympic ladies’s 800m finalist
800m PB: 1:55.61

Jemma Reekie Paris 2024 — Jemma Reekie within the ladies’s 800m on the Paris 2024 Olympic Video games. Photograph: Kevin Morris

Georgia Hunter Bell (Nice Britain)

2024 Olympic bronze medallist (1,500m)
2025 world indoor bronze medallist (1,500m)
800m PB: 1:56.28

Halima Nakaayi (Uganda)

2019 world champion (800m)
2022 World Indoor bronze medallist (800m)
800m PB: 1:57.26

Cooper Teare (U.S.A.)

Former NCAA 5,000m champion (2021)
Mile PB: 3:50.17

Canada’s Charles Philibert-Thiboutot chases down American Cooper Teare within the 5,000m at Grand Slam Monitor Kingston.
Photograph: Kevin Morris

Elliot Giles (Nice Britain)

4x British 800m champion
2016 European Championships bronze medallist (800m)
Mile PB: 3:49.16

Wyclife Kinyamal (Kenya)

2x Commonwealth Video games 800m champion
6x Diamond League occasion winner
800m PB: 1:42.08

Stefan Nillessen (Netherlands)

Dutch 1,500m document holder
2023 European U23 champion (1,500m)
Mile PB: 3:49.02

Cathal Doyle (Eire)

3x Irish 1,500m champion
Mile PB: 3:52.06

How one can watch?

Thursday’s document try will happen at Stade Sébastien Charléty in Paris, the location of Kipyegon’s 2023 1,500m world document and her fastest-ever 5,000m (additionally a world document on the time). Like Eliud Kipchoge’s Breaking2 marathon undertaking in 2017, Kipyegon’s try will characteristic precision pacing, very best monitor situations and custom-designed Nike efficiency footwear and attire.

The race might be streamed stay on Amazon Prime, along with Nike’s YouTube channel, beginning with the pre-show at 1 p.m. ET, and the race kicking off at 2 p.m. ET.