{"id":171490,"date":"2023-10-13T12:20:12","date_gmt":"2023-10-13T04:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/?p=171490"},"modified":"2023-10-13T12:23:07","modified_gmt":"2023-10-13T04:23:07","slug":"nike-eliud-kipchoge-ek-umoja-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/2023\/10\/13\/nike-eliud-kipchoge-ek-umoja-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"Nike and Eliud Kipchoge Celebrate Their 20-Year Partnership With the &#8220;EK Umoja Collection&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In the 20 years of Eliud Kipchoge and Nike&#8217;s partnership, records were broken and the limits of human capabilities were reimagined. In celebration, comes the &#8220;EK Umoja Collection&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The collection subsumes five pairs of running shoes: the Nike Alphafly 2, Nike Vaporfly 3, Nike Zoom Fly 5, Nike Pegasus 40, and Nike Victory track and field spikes; as well as a range of apparel, such as the Nike Windrunner, Nike Rise 365 Tee, Nike Stride shorts, and Nike Dri-FIT tops, and other activewear items.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Umoja&#8221; stands for &#8220;unity&#8221; in Kipchoge&#8217;s native Swahili. &#8220;This collection represents the work done together as a running family and community,&#8221; Kipchoge explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The collection is primarily inspired by Kipchoge&#8217;s first 5000-meter world championship in Paris in 2003. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The pairs are dressed in a uniform palette. The red color symbolizes his proud Kenyan heritage, paying tribute to the Nike Kenya suit, running shoe insoles, and performance gear he wore at the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His winning record that year, &#8220;12:52.79,&#8221; is printed on the insole of one pair, alongside his motto &#8220;No Human is Limited&#8221; in the other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The collection is available now in select regions of Nike&#8217;s brick-and-click stores.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Elsewhere, check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/2023\/10\/13\/hiroshi-fujiwara-fragment-university\/?slide=right\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">official goods from Hiroshi Fujiwara\u2019s FRAGMENT UNIVERSITY<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/snkrdunkappen.page.link\/5aH1_AppHomepage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Generic-Banner-V1-2.jpg\" alt=\"SNKRDUNK App Banner\" class=\"wp-image-151763\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the 20 years of Eliud Kipchoge and Nike&#8217;s partnership, records were broken and the limits of human capabilities were reimagined. In celebration, comes the &#8220;EK Umoja Collection&#8221;. The collection subsumes five pairs of running shoes: the Nike Alphafly 2, Nike Vaporfly 3, Nike Zoom Fly 5, Nike Pegasus 40, and Nike Victory track and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":171518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,21,18,3,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brands","category-calendar","category-latest-news","category-nike","category-releases"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171490"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171490"}],"version-history":[{"count":54,"href":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171585,"href":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171490\/revisions\/171585"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}