Faith Kipyegon remains unbeaten and adds her third world 1,500 crown

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the kenyan Faith Kipyegonwho already owns two world titles of 1,500added to his collection the third at the National Athletics Center in Budapest, where he gave a lesson in bravery by imposing a ferocious pace from the start that left his rivals with no chance to surprise him.

kipygon, The 29-year-old holds three world records this season in the 1,500 meters, 5,000 and the mile. In Budapest he came to meet two goals by winning the 1,500 and 5,000 and the first has already been fulfilled. In the 1,500, she hasn’t lost a race since June 10, 2021 and now, in Budapest, in the 5,000, she’s looking to achieve the double that a woman has so far failed to achieve in those two trials.

Kipyegon, who was also the distance champion at the Rio de Janeiro 2016 and Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, took to the track dedicated to him by over thirty thousand spectators who attended the event and the Kenyan did not disappoint. He won the race with solvency, without opposition and reached more than two meters from the finish line to second.

The Kenyan recorded a time of 3:54.87higher than the Ethiopian’s 3:55.69 Diribe Weltejisilver, and the Dutch sifan hassan (3:56.00), bronze.

Source: La Verdad

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