The three-time Olympic gold medalist ran a personal-best time of 4:06.42 in a special event dubbed “Breaking4: Faith Kipyegon ...

Olympic champion Faith Kipyegon nearly ran a mile in less than four minutes — coming oh-so-close to breaking the threshold ...

Triple Olympic champion Faith Kipyegon of Kenya fell well short in her bid to become the first woman to run a sub-four minute mile on Thursday.

Roger Bannister first ran a sub-four mile in 1954—a time when women weren’t even allowed to run the distance in the Olympics.

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 ...

To understand the magnitude of this moment, it helps to know what the mile symbolizes. In 1954, Roger Bannister became the first person to break the 4-minute barrier.

Roger Bannister became the first man to run a sub-4-minute mile in 1954. No woman has yet broken the 4-minute mile barrier.

He was in attendance Thursday for Kipyegon’s effort. A four-minute mile has long been recognized as an iconic landmark in running, first achieved by Great Britain’s Roger Bannister in 1954.

Over 2,000 men have run a mile under 4 minutes in the years since Roger Bannister first achieved it in 1954. No woman has ever come closer than Kipyegon, who set the mile world record at 4:07.64 ...