Faith Kipyegon
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Full name | Faith Chepngetich Kipyegon | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Bomet, Kenya | 10 January 1994||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Home town | Iten, Kenya | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.57 m (5 ft 2 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 42 kg (93 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Kenya | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | 1500 metres | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Faith Chepngetich Kipyegon (born 10 January 1994) is a Kenyan middle-distance runner specializing in the 1500 metres. A 2016 Rio and 2020 Tokyo Olympic champion, she has won or finished second in every major championships since she was 20 in 2014. Competing at the World Championships in 2015, 2017 and 2019, Kipyegon took a silver medal, a gold and a silver respectively. She was the 2014 Commonwealth Games champion. In July 2021, she achieved the 4th fastest time in history, setting her consecutive Kenyan record.[1]
In her signature event, Kipyegon took gold medals at the 2011 World U18 Championships, and the 2012 World U20 Championships. Aged 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 5th at the 2013 World Championships.
Kipyegon was cited as one of the Top 100 most influential Africans by New African magazine in 2017.[2]
Career
Junior career
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At age 16, Faith Kipyegon ran in the 2010 World Cross Country Championships women's junior race. She came in 5th place individually and won the gold medal with her team.
She participated in the 2011 World Cross Country Championships in Punta Umbria and won the gold medal in the junior race both with her team and individually. A few months afterward, she competed at the World Youth Championships in the 1500 m winning a gold medal ahead of three Ethiopian runners with a time of 4m 9.48s.[3]
At the 2012 World Junior Championships in Barcelona, she won a gold medal in her signature event way ahead of the field with a time of 4:04.96; the Serbian Amela Terzić and Ethiopian Senbere Teferi took 2nd and 3rd respectively.[4] The 18-year-old qualified for the London Olympics, but at the event failed to advance to the semi-finals.[5]
At the beginning of the 2013 season, Kipyegon won the junior individual race at the World Cross Country Championships in Bydgoszcz, Poland. On 10 May, at the Qatar Athletic Super Grand Prix in Doha, she established a new Kenyan Record in the 1500 m with a time of 3:56.98, facing the Swedish runner Abeba Aregawi. In August, at the World Championships in Moscow, she came fifth in the final in a time of 4:05.08.
Senior career
In 2014, she 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, improved the World Record time to 16:33.58. The same year, she added a gold in her specialist event at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland.
On 25 August 2015, Kipyegon won a silver at the World Championships in Beijing, finishing second to world record holder Genzebe Dibaba in the 1500 m event. On 11 September, at the Diamond League finale in Brussels, she won the mile in 4:16.71, beating Sifan Hassan, who finished in 4:18.20,[6] in the final stretch.
In August 2016, she competed at the Rio Olympic Games, where she won her event in 4:08.92 with a 56.8-second final lap.[7][8]
In 2017, she earned the 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 clocked 4:02.59 while three next women also recorded times below 4m 3s.
Kipyegon gave birth to her first child in 2018, returning in 2019 to win silver medal in her signature event at the World Championships, where she set a Kenyan record of 3:54.22. Sifan Hassan came first in 3:51.95.
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 3:51.07 – the 4th fastest time in history – outsprinting Hassan in the home straight by 2.5 s.[1]
Achievements
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/Women%27s_1500_m_podium_Beijing_2015.jpg/240px-Women%27s_1500_m_podium_Beijing_2015.jpg)
All information taken from World Athletics profile.
Personal bests
Event | Time | Venue | Date | Notes |
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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 #4 all-time [9] |
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
Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Result | Notes |
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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 | 21st (h) | 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 | NR |
Circuit wins and titles
- Diamond League winner (1) (1500 m): 2017
- 2015 (1) (One Mile): Brussels Memorial Van Damme
- 2016 [3]; (2) (1500 m): Shanghai Diamond League, Eugene, OR Prefontaine Classic; (1) (One Mile): Oslo Bislett Games
- 2017 (3) (1500 m): Shanghai Diamond League, Eugene Prefontaine Classic, Brussels Memorial Van Damme
- 2019 (1) (1500 m): Eugene Prefontaine Classic in Palo Alto, CA
- 2020 [3]; (2) (1000 m): Monaco Herculis, Brussels Memorial Van Damme; (1) (800 m): Doha Diamond League
- 2021 [2]; (1) (800 m): Doha Diamond League; (1) (1500 m): Monaco Herculis
See also
- List of Olympic medalists in athletics (women)
- List of 2016 Summer Olympics medal winners
- List of African Olympic medalists
- List of World Athletics Championships medalists (women)
- List of Commonwealth Games medallists in athletics (women)
- 1500 metres at the Olympics
- 1500 metres at the World Championships in Athletics
References
- ^ a b Jeffery, Nicole (9 July 2021). "Kipyegon cruises to Kenyan 1500m record in Monaco". World Athletics. Retrieved 9 July 2021.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "100 Most Influential Africans: Ten Kenyans Including CJ David Maraga Listed". Answers Africa. 7 December 2017. Retrieved 15 January 2021.
- ^ "2011 IAAF World Cross Country Championships", Wikipedia, 27 December 2019, retrieved 29 May 2020
- ^ "Faith Chepngetich Kipyegon". London 2012. The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games Limited. Archived from the original on 30 July 2012. Retrieved 11 September 2012.
- ^ "1500m women - Olympic Athletics". International Olympic Committee. 15 May 2018. Retrieved 29 May 2020.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 14 September 2015. Retrieved 12 September 2015.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ Koech, B. M. "Faith Chepngetich: Gold Medalist | Athletes of Kenya". Archived from the original on 26 August 2016. Retrieved 17 August 2016.
- ^ Phillips, Mitch (17 August 2016). "Kenyan Kipyegon in late charge for 1,500m gold". Reuters. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
- ^ "All time Top lists – 1500 m Women – Senior Outdoor | until 2021-07-09". World Athletics. Retrieved 9 July 2021.
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