Nike ZoomX Vaporfly Next% "Black"

Colorway: Black/White · Style code: AO4568-001 · Release date: November 30, 2020 · Lowest resale ask: $259 · Availability: Available now

More colorways & related: Nike ZoomX Vaporfly NEXT% "Be True" · Nike ZoomX Vaporfly NEXT% "Pink Blast" · Nike ZoomX Vaporfly NEXT% "Bright Mango" · Nike ZoomX Vaporfly NEXT% 2 "Watermelon" · Nike Wmns ZoomX Vaporfly NEXT% 2 "Rawdacious" · Nike ZoomX Vaporfly NEXT% 2 "Summit White" · Nike Kobe 8 Protro "Shanghai Fireworks" · Nike Air Bakin High SP — Varsity Royal · Women's Nike Alphafly 4 — Hyper Pink/Fuchsia Blast · Nike Alphafly 4 — Total Orange · Nike Sabrina 4 "Light Work" · Women's Nike Air Rift Rocker x Melitta Baumeister — Yukon Brown/Light Iron Ore

About the Nike ZoomX Vaporfly Next% "Black"

On May 6, 2017 Nike put three runners on the banking at Monza, the Formula One circuit outside Milan, and tried to produce a marathon under two hours. Eliud Kipchoge, Zersenay Tadese and Lelisa Desisa ran behind a rotating screen of pacers and a lead car, and Kipchoge came through in 2:00:25. None of it counted - the pacing arrangement put the run outside the rules - but the project had a second output besides the time. The shoe built for it, the Vaporfly Elite, became a commercial line.

Kipchoge went under two hours eventually, running 1:59:40 at the Ineos 1:59 Challenge in Vienna on October 12, 2019, again in conditions that ruled out a record. His legal marks came at Berlin: 2:01:39 in September 2018, then 2:01:09 in September 2022.

The NEXT% is the consumer end of that program. The upper is VaporWeave rather than mesh, chosen because it takes on less water over a long race. The midsole is a tall slab of ZoomX foam with a carbon-fiber plate through it, stiff enough to resist the toes bending at the end of each stride.

Written with AI from brand specs; facts checked against our catalog data on Sep 18, 2026.