{"id":200557,"date":"2025-06-20T14:15:53","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T12:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenyas-kipyegon-takes-aim-at-being-first-woman-to-break-4-minute-mile-barrier\/"},"modified":"2025-06-20T14:15:53","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T12:15:53","slug":"kenyas-kipyegon-takes-aim-at-being-first-woman-to-break-4-minute-mile-barrier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenyas-kipyegon-takes-aim-at-being-first-woman-to-break-4-minute-mile-barrier\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya&#8217;s Kipyegon Takes Aim At Being First Woman to Break 4-Minute Mile Barrier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"11\">Faith Kipyegon wants Paris to be her lucky place once again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"49\">On June 26, she will attempt to become the first woman to break the four-minute mile barrier at Charlety Stadium in the French capital, the same venue where the three-time Olympic champion reset the women&#8217;s 1,500-meter world record to 3:49.04 during last year&#8217;s &#8220;Meeting de Paris&#8221; Diamond League event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">With fellow Kenyan Eliud Kipchoge having proven that &#8220;No human is limited&#8221; through his iconic sub-two-hour marathon, Kipyegon now aims to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506200205.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Faith Kipyegon wants Paris to be her lucky place once again. On June 26, she will attempt to become the first woman to break the four-minute mile barrier at Charlety Stadium in the French capital, the same venue where the three-time Olympic champion reset the women&#8217;s 1,500-meter world record to 3:49.04 during last year&#8217;s &#8220;Meeting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":200558,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[51681,258,256,12953,12742,6913,430,6097,23574,8193,257,254,5056,4307],"class_list":["post-200557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-4minute","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-aim","tag-barrier","tag-break","tag-kenya-news","tag-kenyas","tag-kipyegon","tag-mile","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-takes","tag-woman"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}