Nike Pro Elite
2025

The Afternoon of 5 July

The 2025 season compressed its history into one Eugene afternoon. At the Prefontaine Classic on 5 July — the brand's own meeting, its fiftieth edition — Beatrice Chebet ran 5000 m in 13:58.06, the first woman in history under fourteen minutes, and Faith Kipyegon took the 1500 m world record to 3:48.68, nine days after running the fastest mile ever by a woman at Nike's Breaking4 in Paris. In the same meeting Melissa Jefferson-Wooden, a Nike athlete since 2022, won the 100 m in 10.75. In September 2026, both records still stand.

Breaking4, the Indoor Records and a Farewell Tour

Breaking4 was the brand's Breaking2 for the mile. On 26 June 2025, at the Stade Charléty in Paris, Nike put Kipyegon behind thirteen pacers — Grant Fisher and Georgia Bell among them — in a speedsuit, a 3D-printed bra and titanium-pinned spikes built for her alone, and asked for the first sub-four mile by a woman. She ran 4:06.91, adjusted by Nike to 4:06.42 once the reaction time was removed: 6.91 seconds short of four minutes, 0.73 under her own official record, and not ratifiable. Nine days later she took the 1500 m record instead.

Fisher had opened the year with two world records of his own, both indoors and both in Nike: 7:22.91 for 3000 m in New York on 8 February and 12:44.09 for 5000 m in Boston on 14 February. That same month Nike ended the professional Bowerman Track Club after twelve years and ten global medallists, folding its coach Jerry Schumacher into a new three-site Swoosh Track Club with Diljeet Taylor in Utah and Mike Smith in Arizona. The club Shalane Flanagan and Shelby Houlihan had raced for was over.

And Eliud Kipchoge ran his farewell tour in Nike: sixth in London on 27 April in 2:05:25, ninth in Sydney on 31 August — a race Sifan Hassan, also Nike, won in a course record 2:18:22 — and seventeenth in New York on 2 November in 2:14:36, completing the six World Marathon Majors at 40. Nike marked one more ending that September: Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, its athlete for seventeen years, retired, and the brand hung a banner at its Oregon headquarters naming her the most decorated 100 m sprinter in history.

The Tokyo World Championships in September were the federations' month — Team USA in the Nike kit of USATF is in our USA 2025 page, Kenya in the Nike kit of Athletics Kenya in the country history — and they are not the story of this kit.

The Kit of the Cycle

The 2025 cycle is the newest kit in the archive and the least escaped: navy knit racing shorts with a red Swoosh, the first piece of the current generation to leave the athlete channel. Current-cycle issue is the rarest kind — the athletes are still wearing theirs.

Construction follows the athlete-issue rules our authentication guide covers: competition-weight cloth, race cuts, no retail run. “Pro Elite” is the athlete-channel label collectors use — the programme Nike itself keeps off the shelves. Federation kit is a different contract: what USATF or Athletics Kenya wear at a Worlds lives in our country pages, not here.

From this cycle · in the archiveNike Pro Elite Team 2025 Women Running ShortsThe navy knit racing shorts of the current generation — the first 2025 piece to escape the athlete channel.200,00 €View piece →

The Full Cycle in the Archive

Every piece we hold from the 2025 cycle, grouped by edition — in-stock first, sold pieces dimmed and documented, refreshed against live stock. The full brand story is in the Nike pillar.

Nike Pro Elite Team 2025 Women Running Shorts200,00 €View Piece →