Faith Kipyegon

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Faith Kipyegon
Faith Kipyegon London 2017.jpg
Kipyegon at the 2017 World Championships
Personal information
Full nameFaith Chepngetich Kipyegon
Born (1994-01-10) 10 January 1994 (age 28)
Bomet, Kenya
Home townIten, Kenya
Height1.57 m (5 ft 2 in)[1]
Weight42 kg (93 lb)
Sport
CountryKenya
SportAthletics
Event(s)1500 metres
Achievements and titles
World finals
  • 1500 m
  • 2013: 5th
  • 2015:  Silver
  • 2017:  Gold
  • 2019:  Silver
Olympic finals
  • 1500 m
  • 2012 London: h (16th)
  • 2016 Rio de Janeiro:  Gold
  • 2020 Tokyo:  Gold
Personal best(s)
  • 800 m: 1:57.68 (Doha 2020)
  • 1000 m: 2:29.15 AR (Monaco 2020)
  • 1500 m: 3:51.07 NR (Monaco 2021)
  • 3000 m: 8:23.25 (Doha 2014)
Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing Kenya Kenya
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2016 Rio de Janeiro 1500 m
Gold medal – first place 2020 Tokyo 1500 m
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2017 London 1500 m
Silver medal – second place 2015 Beijing 1500 m
Silver medal – second place 2019 Doha 1500 m
World Relays
Gold medal – first place 2014 Nassau 4x1500 m
Diamond League
First place 2017 1500 m
First place 2021 1500 m
Commonwealth Games
Gold medal – first place 2014 Glasgow 1500 m
World Junior Championships
Gold medal – first place 2012 Barcelona 1500 m
World Youth Championships
Gold medal – first place 2011 Lille 1500 m
World Cross Country Championships
Gold medal – first place 2010 Bydgoszcz Junior team
Gold medal – first place 2011 Punta Umbria Junior race
Silver medal – second place 2011 Punta Umbria Junior team
Gold medal – first place 2013 Bydgoszcz Junior race
Gold medal – first place 2013 Bydgoszcz Junior team
Gold medal – first place 2017 Kampala Senior team

Faith Chepngetich Kipyegon (born 10 January 1994)[2] is a Kenyan middle-distance runner specializing in the 1500 metres. A 2016 Rio Olympics and 2020 Tokyo Olympics champion with the Olympic record at the latter, she is the second woman in history to claim back-to-back Olympic 1500m titles. Kipyegon has won or finished second in every major championships since age 20 in 2014, and is regarded as the greatest female 1500 metres runner in history.[3][4][5] Competing at the World Championships in 2015, 2017 and 2019, she took a silver, gold and silver medal respectively. In July 2021, she achieved the fourth-fastest time in history, setting her consecutive Kenyan record.[6]

Kipyegon won her specialist event at the 2011 World Under-18 Championships, and 2012 World U20 Championships. At the age of 18, she did not reach semifinals of the 2012 London Olympics, but won the junior races at the 2011 and 2013 World Cross Country Championships, and finished fifth at the 2013 World Championships. She was 2014 Commonwealth Games champion, and 2017 and 2021 Diamond League winner.

Kipyegon was cited as one of the Top 100 most influential Africans by New African magazine in 2017.[7]

Career[]

Junior career[]

Kipyegon at the 2012 World Junior Championships

At age 16, Faith Kipyegon ran in the 2010 World Cross Country Championships women's junior race in Bydgoszcz, Poland. She came in fourth place individually and won the gold medal with her under-20 team.[8]

She participated in the 2011 World Cross Country Championships in Punta Umbria, Spain and won the gold medal in the junior race adding silver with her team.[9] A few months afterward, she competed in the 1500 m at the World Youth Championships in Lille, France winning a gold medal ahead of two Ethiopian runners with a time of 4m 9.48s and breaking a championship record in the process.[10]

At the 2012 World Junior Championships in Barcelona, Kipyegon won a gold medal in her specialist event way ahead of the field with a time of 4:04.96; the Serbian Amela Terzić and Ethiopian Senbere Teferi took second and third place respectively. That time she also set a a championship record.[11] The 18-year-old qualified for the London Olympics, but at the event failed to advance to the semi-finals clocking 4:08.78.[12]

At the beginning of the 2013 season, she won a gold medal in the junior race both with her team at the World Cross Country Championships in Bydgoszcz, Poland.[13] On 10 May, at the Diamond League meeting in Doha, Qatar, she established in the 1500 m a Kenyan record with a time of 3:56.98, facing the Swedish runner Abeba Aregawi.[14] In August, at the World Championships in Moscow, the 19-year-old came fifth in the final in a time of 4:05.08.[15]

Senior career[]

2014[]

In May, she was a part of the team which won a gold medal in the 4×1500 m relay at the first IAAF World Relays in Nassau, Bahamas, along with Mercy Cherono, Irene Jelagat and Hellen Obiri. The Kenyan team, ahead of the United States and Australia, set a new world record time in a time of 16:33.58.[16] The same year in July, she became Commonwealth Games 1500 m champion in Glasgow, Scotland in a time of 4:08.94.[17]

2015[]

Kipyegon (left) collecting her silver medal in the 1500 m at the 2015 World Championships in Beijing

On 25 August, Kipyegon won a silver in the 1500 m event at the World Championships in Beijing. After tactical race she finished in 4:08.96 second to Ethiopia's world record holder Genzebe Dibaba who clocked 4:08.09. Siffan Hassan representing Netherlands was third in 4:09.34.[18]

On 11 September, at the Diamond League meeting in Brussels, she won one mile with an African and a meet record of 4:16.71, beating Hassan, who finished in 4:18.20, in the final stretch.[19]

2016[]

On 14 May, Kipyegon improved her own 2013 1500 m Kenyan record by running 3:56.82 when wining Diamond League Shanghai Golden Grand Prix meeting. Two weeks later she bested her record with a 3:56.41 performance to place first at the Prefontaine Classic in Eugene, Oregon. She also won the mile event during Oslo Bislett Games meet in June.[2]

The 22-year-old became 2016 Olympics Games 1500 m gold medallist in Rio de Janeiro reversing the order from the previous year's World Championships. She outsprinted Dibaba in the final 200m in what was initially a very slow race, with a third lap in 56.80 and last 800m in the 800m races pace of 1:57.2.[20] Kipyegon clocked 4:08.92, Dibaba 4:10.27, and Jennifer Simpson was third in 4:10.53.[21][22]

2017[]

Kipyegon (center) at the 2017 World Championships in London

She earned her first Diamond League 1500 m title, winning three races in Shanghai, Eugene, and Brussels. Her best success of this year was the first place at the London World Championships, becoming only the third woman in history to win both the Olympic and World Championships 1500 m race. She timed 4:02.59 while three next women also recorded times below 4m 3s, with Jenny Simpson in second and Caster Semenya third .[23]

2018–2020[]

Kipyegon gave birth to her first child in 2018, returning 12 months later. in June 2019, to win her signature event in 3:59:04 at the Prefontaine Classic in Palo Alto.[4] She went on to win a silver medal at the World Championships in Doha, where she set her new Kenyan record of 3:54.22. Sifan Hassan came first in 3:51.95 while third-placed Gudaf Tsegay set a best of 3:54.38.[24]

In 2020, she competed at the Diamond League and Continental Tour meetings staying unbeaten in all her six races. In August, she ran the second-fastest time ever, an African record and a Diamond League record in the 1000 metres at the Herculis meet in Monaco, with her result of 2:29.15 just 0.17 short of the world record.[2][25][26]

2021[]

In 2021, she improved her national record twice at the Diamond League meetings. On 10 June, she ran 3:53.91 at the Rome Golden Gala meet, staged exceptionally in Florence, to finish second just behind Sifan Hassan, who timed 3:53.63. On 9 July at the Monaco Herculis, Kipyegon stopped the clock at a world-leading 3m 51.07s – the fourth-fastest time in history and just one second off Genzebe Dibaba's world record – outsprinting Hassan in the home straight by about 2.5 s.[6]

At the women's 1500 m final of the delayed 2020 Tokyo Games in August, Kipyegon overtook Hassan in the last 200m to win her second consecutive Olympic gold medal in the event in a time of 3m 53.11s, breaking an Olympic record which had stood for 33 years. She also became the second woman in history to win back-to-back Olympic 1500m titles. While Hassan faded in the home stretch (3:55.86) Laura Muir set the British record of 3:54.50 to claim a silver medal.[27][28][29]

In September, she beat Hassan again at the Zürich Weltklasse Diamond League final to take her second 1500m Diamond Trophy. Kipyegon won nine out of her ten races in the season.[2][5]

Personal life[]

Kipyegon is married to middle-distance runner Timothy Kitum, the 2012 Olympic 800m bronze medalist. They have a daughter, Alyn, born in June 2018. Kipyegon returned to training in January 2019 after almost 18-month break. On 30 June 2019, she won Diamond League's Palo Alto Prefontaine Classic clocking 3:59.04.[30]

Achievements[]

All information taken from World Athletics profile.

Personal bests[]

Event Time Venue Date Notes
800 metres 1:57.68 Doha, Qatar 25 September 2020
1000 metres 2:29.15 Monaco, Monaco 14 August 2020 African record
1500 metres 3:51.07 Monaco, Monaco 9 July 2021 NR #4th all-time [31]
One mile 4:16.71 Brussels, Belgium 11 September 2015
3000 metres 8:23.55 Doha, Qatar 9 May 2014
5000 metres 14:31.95 Eugene, OR, United States 30 May 2015
4×1500 m relay 16:33.58 Nassau, Bahamas 24 May 2014 African record

International competitions[]

Representing  Kenya
Year Competition Venue Position Event Result Notes
2010 World Cross Country Championships Bydgoszcz, Poland 4th Junior race 19:02
1st Junior team 10 pts
2011 World Cross Country Championships Punta Umbria, Spain 1st Junior race 18:53
2nd Junior team 19 pts
World Youth Championships Lille, France 1st 1500 m 4:09.48 CR
2012 World Junior Championships Barcelona, Spain 1st 1500 m 4:04.96 CR
Olympic Games London, United Kingdom h (16th) 1500 m 4:08.78
2013 World Cross Country Championships Bydgoszcz, Poland 1st Junior race 17:51
1st Junior team 14 pts
World Championships Moscow, Russia 5th 1500 m 4:05.08
2014 World Relays Nassau, Bahamas 1st 4×1500 m 16:33.58 WR
Commonwealth Games Glasgow, United Kingdom 1st 1500 m 4:08.94
2015 World Championships Beijing, China 2nd 1500 m 4:08.96
2016 Olympic Games Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 1st 1500 m 4:08.92
2017 World Cross Country Championship Kampala, Uganda 6th Senior race 32:49
1st Senior team 10 pts
World Championships London, United Kingdom 1st 1500 m 4:02.59
2019 World Championships Doha, Qatar 2nd 1500 m 3:54.22
2021 Olympic Games Tokyo, Japan 1st 1500 m 3:53.11 OR

Circuit wins and titles[]

See also[]

References[]

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