Four days after his victory in the 1,500 meters, the Kenyan Faith Kipyegon cemented her status as the undisputed queen of the midfield in budapest world cup with the gold medal at 5,000after a race that he led from the start and in which he had no choice over his rivals.
With a personal best of sixteen finalists, few at the National Athletics Center in Budapest were confident that there would be an upset and that Kipyegon could lose in a race in which he emerged from the locker room tunnel as the top favorite.
With the athletes wanting to take the initiative to take the lead in the opening run, Kipyegon waited for the 1,500-meter run to change course and take the lead to take control of the race. With a steady rhythm, where he was printing a little more speed every five hundred meters, the Kenyan saw no obstacles to reach the final stretch first.
Behind, at maximum strength, the Dutchman Sifan Hassan, who tried to trust his chances until the end but could not catch up with the Kenyan, with whom he melted into a warm hug as he crossed the finish line to celebrate his second. World Cup medal after bronze in the 1,500. He finished in 14:54.11. Third at the finish line was Kenyan Beatrice Chebet, runner-up at Eugene 2022, who clocked 14:54.33.
With this new success, Faith Kipyegon confirms her status as the undisputed queen of the midfielder as she has two gold medals in the 1,500 Olympic Games (Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020), three world gold medals in the 1,500 (London 2017, Eugene 2022 and Budapest 2023). and another over 5,000 (Budapest) and four Diamond League titles (2015, 2017, 2021 and 2022).
Source: La Verdad

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