Olympic and world 1,500m champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen will be hunting down the two-mile world record at the Charlety Stadium on June 9.
The record is currently the property of Kenya’s Daniel Komen, who ran 7:58.61 in Hechtel, Belgium on July 19, 1997, to set the long-standing milestone.
Komen also holds the hard-to-break world 3,000m record of 7:20.67 set in Riet, Italy in September 1996.
Komen’s 3,000m world indoor record of 7:24.90 was shattered by Ethiopia’s Lamecha Girma on February 15 as he ran 7:23.81.
The 22-year-old Ingebrigtsen will be attempting a feat that has all along proven a tough task for even the world's greatest distance runners like Haile Gebrselassie of Ethiopia, Briton Mo Farah and even world marathon record holder Eliud Kipchoge of Kenya.
Ingebrigtsen holds the record for the fastest time in history for a mile by a 17-year-old, 3:52.28, he set in 2018.
To assist him on his quest, the Norwegian will be counting on the support of wavelight technology — a luminous device that enables athletes taking part in endurance events to easily adapt their pace according to LED lighting posted on the rail inside the track.
Ingebrigtsen, who is coached by his father, Gjert, will also have support from some first-class pacesetters.
Meanwhile, Great Britain's Katarina Johnson-Thompson finished second on her return to the heptathlon as America's Anna Hall claimed gold at the HypoMeeting.
Hall, 22, ran a personal best of two minutes 2.97 seconds in the 800m to finish on 6,988 points - the fifth-best points total in history.
Johnson-Thompson was competing in the heptathlon for the first time since winning gold at the Commonwealth Games in August.
She finished on 6,556 points.
A bronze medallist at the 2022 World Championships, Hall also claimed personal bests in the 100m hurdles, high jump, 200m and long jump in Gotzis, Austria.
Former world champion Johnson-Thompson, who has struggled with injury in recent years, earned a personal best in the shot put of 13.92m.
Fellow Briton and Commonwealth Games bronze medallist Jade O'Dowda came 10th with a personal best score of 6,255.
