Category: Kipyegon

Kipyegon Smashes Mile World Record, Warholm Sparkles at Monaco Diamond League

July 22, 2023
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Kenya’s Faith Kipyegon shattered the women’s mile world record, while compatriot Ferdinand Omanyala won the men’s 100 meters in a photo finish at the Monaco Diamond League meeting on Friday. Kipyegon controlled the field and knocked almost five seconds off the world mark as she finished nearly seven seconds ahead of second-placed Ciara Mageean from…

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Shocked Kipyegon Adds 5,000m World Record to 1,500m Mark in Paris

June 11, 2023
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PARIS—A week after shattering the world record in the women’s 1,500 meters (0.932 miles), Kenya’s Faith Kipyegon had no expectations of a world-beating time in the 5,000, a distance she had not contested in eight years, but managed to surprise herself. The 29-year-old produced a stunning performance to crush the world 5,000 (3.1 miles) mark…

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Kipyegon Sets Women’s 1,500m World Record, Kerly Wins 100m in Florence

June 3, 2023
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FLORENCE, Italy—Kenya’s Faith Kipyegon set a women’s 1,500 meters world record on Friday by clocking 3:49.11, while world champion Fred Kerley triumphed in the men’s 100 meters at the third Diamond League meeting of the season. Kipyegon shaved almost an entire second off the previous mark of 3:50.07 set by Ethiopia’s Genzebe Dibaba in 2015….

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