Faith Kipyegon

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Faith Kipyegon
Faith Kipyegon London 2017 (cropped2).jpg
Kipyegon at the 2017 World Championships in Athletics in London
Personal information
Full nameFaith Chepngetich Kipyegon
Born (1994-01-10) 10 January 1994 (age 30)
Bomet, Rift Valley Province, Kenya
Home town Keringettt, Nakuru County, Kenya
Height1.57 m (5 ft 2 in)
Weight42 kg (93 lb) [1]
Sport
Country Kenya
Sport Athletics
Event 1500 metres
Coached by Patrick Sang (2017–)
Bram Som (2015–2017)
Achievements and titles
Olympic finals
  • 1500 m
  • 2012 London, h (16th)
  • 2016 Rio, Gold medal icon.svg Gold
  • 2020 Tokyo, Gold medal icon.svg Gold
World finals
  • 1500 m
  • 2013 Moscow, 5th
  • 2015 Beijing, Silver medal icon.svg Silver
  • 2017 London, Gold medal icon.svg Gold
  • 2019 Doha, Silver medal icon.svg Silver
  • 2022 Oregon, Gold medal icon.svg Gold
  • 2023 Budapest, Gold medal icon.svg Gold
  • 5000 m
  • 2023 Budapest, Gold medal icon.svg Gold
Highest world ranking1st (1500 m, 2023) [2]
Personal bests
Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing Flag of Kenya.svg  Kenya
Olympic Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2016 Rio de Janeiro 1500 m
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2020 Tokyo 1500 m
World Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2017 London 1500 m
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2022 Eugene 1500 m
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2023 Budapest 1500 m
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2023 Budapest 5000 m
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2015 Beijing 1500 m
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2019 Doha 1500 m
World Relays
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2014 Nassau 4x1500 m
Diamond League
Gold medal icon.svg 2017 1500 m
Gold medal icon.svg 2021 1500 m
Gold medal icon.svg 2022 1500 m
Gold medal icon.svg 2023 1500 m
Commonwealth Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2014 Glasgow 1500 m
World Junior Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2012 Barcelona 1500 m
World Youth Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2011 Villeneuve-d'Ascq 1500 m
World Cross Country Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2010 Bydgoszcz Junior team
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2011 Punta Umbria Junior race
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2013 Bydgoszcz Junior race
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2013 Bydgoszcz Junior team
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2017 Kampala Senior team
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2011 Punta Umbria Junior team
World Road Running Championships
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2023 Riga 1 mile
African Cross Country Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2012 Cape Town Junior race
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2014 Kampala Senior race
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2014 Kampala Senior team

Faith Chepngetich Kipyegon (born 10 January 1994) [3] is a Kenyan middle- and long-distance runner. Kipyegon is the current world record holder for the 1,500 metres and mile, both set in 2023, and the former world record holder for the 5,000 metres. Kipyegon won a gold medal each at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics and the 2020 Tokyo Olympics in the 1,500 m. She also won a gold medal in the 1,500 m at the 2017, 2022 and 2023 World Athletics Championships and in the 5,000 m at the 2023 World Athletics Championships.

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As a junior, Kipyegon won gold medals at the 2011 and 2013 World Cross Country Championships and in the 1500 m at the 2011 World Youth Championships and the 2012 World Junior Championships.

Kipyegon was cited as one of the Top 100 most influential Africans by New African magazine in 2017. [4]

Early life and background

Faith Kipyegon was the eighth of nine children growing up on a farm in a village near Keringet, Nakuru County in the Kenyan Rift Valley. She comes from a Kalenjin tribe. Her elder sister and former training partner Beatrice Mutai is a 10 km and half marathon specialist. Her father Samuel Kipyegon Koech was a 400 m and 800 m runner in his youth, while her mother Linah Koech had also contact with athletics. Faith was a soccer player until she was introduced to athletics at school aged 14. She lined up for a one-kilometer run in P.E. class and won that race by 20 metres. She attended Winners Girls High School in Keringet. [5] [6] [7]

Personal life and coach

Kipyegon is married to middle-distance runner Timothy Kitum, the 2012 Olympic 800 m bronze medallist. They have a daughter, Alyn, born in June 2018. [8]

She trains in Kaptagat (and Kapsabet) coached since the end of 2017 by Patrick Sang, triple global 3000 m steeplechase silver medallist, who is also coaching marathon world record-holder Eliud Kipchoge. [9] [8]

Junior career

In 2010, at age 16, a barefooted Kipyegon made her international debut at the World Cross Country Championships held in Bydgoszcz, Poland, competing against athletes up to three years her senior. She placed fourth in the women's junior race as the youngest finisher in the top 21, and earned the gold medal with her under-20 team (it was a Kenyan 1–4 sweep). [10] [11] Later that year, she showed her track potential by finishing third in the 1500 metres at the Kenyan World Junior Championship Trials in Nairobi. [7]

Kipyegon at the 2012 World Junior Championships in Barcelona. Faith Chepngetich Kipyegon Barcelona 2012.jpg
Kipyegon at the 2012 World Junior Championships in Barcelona.

Running barefoot again, Kipyegon went three better and won the individual gold medal at the 2011 edition in Punta Umbria, Spain, adding a silver with her team. [12] [7] A few months later, she raced the 1500 m at the World Youth Championships in Villeneuve-d'Ascq, France, taking the women's crown ahead of two Ethiopian runners with a time of 4:09.48 and breaking the championship record in the process. [13]

Her 2012 season started with a bang as, after the 800 metres race in April, she set a swift national junior 1500 m record of 4:03.82 at the Shanghai Diamond League meeting (5th) the following month. [3] In June, the 18-year-old won the event at the Kenyan Junior Athletics Championships, and finished third at the Kenyan Olympic Trials to secure a spot on the national team for the 2012 Olympic Games in London. [3] [14] At the World Junior Championships held in July in Barcelona, she ran a championship record again to claim gold in her specialist event way ahead of the field with a time of 4:04.96; Serbian Amela Terzić and Ethiopian Senbere Teferi took second and third place respectively. [15] She placed ninth in her heat at the London Olympics in August in a time of 4:08.78 (sixth after later doping disqualifications), failing to advance to the semi-finals. [16]

At the beginning of the 2013 season, she defended her junior title at the World Cross Country Championships in Bydgoszcz (PL). [17] On 10 May at the Diamond League meeting in Doha, Qatar, she broke for the first time the 4-minute barrier in the 1500 m, clocking an African U20 and Kenyan senior record of 3:56.98. Kipyegon finished second behind Swedish runner Abeba Aregawi but beat Ethiopia's Genzebe Dibaba in third. [3] [18] [14] In August, at the Moscow World Championships, the 19-year-old came fifth in the final in a time of 4:05.08. [19]

Senior career

2014: Commonwealth champion

In March, she claimed victory in the senior women's race (8 km) at the African Cross Country Championships held in Kampala, Uganda, beating silver medallist by more than eight seconds. [6] In May, she was a member of the team which won the 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 of 16:33.58. [20] That same year in July, Kipyegon took her first senior 1500 m victory, becoming the Glasgow Commonwealth Games champion in Scotland with a time of 4:08.94. [21] The 20-year-old finished fifth over the distance, however, at the African Championships staged in Marrakesh, Morocco in August, clocking a disappointing 4:13.46. [3]

Faith Kipyegon (L) collecting her first individual senior global medal, a silver for the 1500 m, at the 2015 World Championships in Beijing. Women's 1500 m podium Beijing 2015.jpg
Faith Kipyegon (L) collecting her first individual senior global medal, a silver for the 1500 m, at the 2015 World Championships in Beijing.

2015: World championship silver medallist

On 25 August, Kipyegon won a silver in the 1500 m event at the World Championships held in Beijing. After a tactical race she finished second in a time of 4:08.96 behind only then fresh world record holder Genzebe Dibaba who clocked 4:08.09. Sifan Hassan representing the Netherlands was third in 4:09.34. [22]

On 11 September, she secured her first Diamond League victory, winning the mile race in Brussels. It was the notable success as she set a meeting and African record of 4:16.71, beating Hassan who ran 4:18.20 in the final stretch. [23]

2016: First Olympic title in Rio

Kipyegon got her Olympic campaign off to a strong start on 14 May, racing the 1500 m at the Shanghai Diamond League. She improved her own 2013 Kenyan record to 3:56.82 for a win, setting also the meeting record. Two weeks later, she repeated all these feats at the Eugene Diamond Race meet in Oregon, USA, lowering her national record to 3:56.41. [14] She also notched up victory in the mile event during Oslo Diamond League in June. [3]

Kipyegon celebrates her first Olympic 1500 m victory in 2016 in Rio de Janeiro. Faith Kipyegon at 2016 Rio Olympics (cropped).jpg
Kipyegon celebrates her first Olympic 1500 m victory in 2016 in Rio de Janeiro.

The then 22-year-old became the Olympic 1500 m champion in Rio de Janeiro reversing the order from the previous year's World Championships. She outsprinted Dibaba in the final 200 m in what was initially a very slow tactical race, with a third lap in 56.80 and last 800 m in a fast 800 m races pace of 1:57.2. [24] Kipyegon clocked 4:08.92, Dibaba 4:10.27 and Jenny Simpson was third in 4:10.53. [25] [26]

2017: First senior world title

She earned her first Diamond League 1500 m Trophy, winning three races in Shanghai, USA's Eugene and Brussels. [3] It was the first season of the series to feature the new championship-style system in which overall event winners are determined only by the results of the final meet. Kipyegon outsprinted her rival Sifan Hassan at the Brussels Final in September, 3:57.04 to 3:57.22. [27]

At the 2017 World Championships in London, Kipyegon (L in red) won her first senior world title, beating, 2-5, Jenny Simpson, DSD athlete Caster Semenya, Laura Muir and Sifan Hassan. Women's 1500m at London 2017.jpg
At the 2017 World Championships in London, Kipyegon (L in red) won her first senior world title, beating, 2–5, Jenny Simpson, DSD athlete Caster Semenya, Laura Muir and Sifan Hassan.

Her best success of that year was the first place at the London World Championships in August, becoming the first Kenyan female world 1500 m champion and only the third woman in history to win both the Olympic and World Championships finals over the distance. The 23-year-old ran 4:02.59 while a further three women also recorded times below 4:03, with Jenny Simpson in second and DSD athlete Caster Semenya third. [28] [6] "I won the Olympics in 2016 but the victory at the World Championships in 2017 was sweeter because I fought the hardest. In 2016 Rio, I was only wary of Genzebe Dibaba of Ethiopia because I had a fantastic season. In London, Caster Semenya, Dibaba, Sifan Hassan, Laura Muir and Jennifer Simpson were all gold medal prospects.", Kipyegon said. [6]

At this point she decided to start a family. [29]

2018–2020: Motherhood and comeback, world championship silver medallist

Kipyegon followed her doctor’s advice and trained until she was between four and five months pregnant. She gave birth to her first child, a daughter Alyn, in June 2018 by a caesarean section due to the wrong position of her baby. Kipyegon returned to training in January 2019 after an almost 18-month break. At the end of June six months later, 12 months after the childbirth, she made her racing comeback in style, winning her specialty in 3:59:04 at the Eugene Diamond League, the Prefontaine Classic, held that year in Palo Alto. [8] [30]

Women's 1500m final at 2019 World Athletics Championships 1.jpg
Women's 1500m podium at 2019 World Athletics Championships.jpg
In the 1500 m final at the 2019 Doha World Championships, Faith (L in red) lost only to Sifan Hassan, returning after giving birth in the previous year.

Kipyegon went on to take the silver medal at the World Championships in Doha, where she chopped more than two seconds from her 2016 Kenyan record in the final with a time of 3:54.22. Sifan Hassan came first in 3:51.95 while third-placed Gudaf Tsegay set a personal best of 3:54.38. [31]

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 and Diamond League record in the 1000 metres at the Herculis meet in Monaco, with her result of 2:29.15 just 0.17 s short of the world record set back in 1996 by Svetlana Masterkova. [3] [32] [33]

2021: Second back-to-back Olympic title in Tokyo

In 2021, Kipyegon greatly improved her 2019 Kenyan national record at the Diamond League meetings. On 10 June, she ran 3:53.91 at the Rome Golden Gala, staged exceptionally in Florence, to finish second just behind Sifan Hassan who timed 3:53.63. On 9 July at the Monaco Herculis, Kipyegon chopped nearly three seconds from that mark for a win, stopping the clock at a world-leading 3:51.07 – the fourth-fastest female performance in history at the time and just one second off Genzebe Dibaba's world record, which was also set in Monaco in 2015. She outsprinted Hassan in the home straight by about 2.5 s. [34]

In the women's 1500 m final of the delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympics in August, Kipyegon overtook Hassan in the last 200 m to secure her second consecutive Olympic gold medal in the event in a time of 3:53.11, breaking the Games record which had stood for 33 years. She became the second woman in history to win back-to-back Olympic 1500 m titles. While Hassan faded in the home stretch (3:55.86 for third) Laura Muir set a British record of 3:54.50 to clinch the silver medal. [35] [36] [37]

In September, she beat Hassan again at the Zürich Weltklasse Diamond League final to take her second 1500 m Diamond Trophy. Kipyegon won nine out of her ten races of the season. [3] [38]

2022: Second senior world title

In May, Kipyegon claimed victory in her signature event at the Eugene Diamond League in USA.

Kipyegon with her record fourth global 1500 m gold medal at the 2022 World Championships in Eugene. Faith Kipyegon Oregon 2022.jpg
Kipyegon with her record fourth global 1500 m gold medal at the 2022 World Championships in Eugene.

At the World Championships held also in Eugene in July, Kipyegon decisively won the 1500 m gold medal with a time of 3:52.96, which made her the first female athlete to win four global titles over the distance. Gudaf Tsegay placed second in 3:54.52 while Laura Muir earned bronze (3:55.28). [39]

On 10 August at the Monaco Diamond League, Kipyegon came within 0.3 s of Dibaba's world record with 3:50.37 to set her new Kenyan record and the second-fastest performance in history at the time. She split 60.5 / 62.1 / 62.1 / 45.67 (last 400 m in 61.3 s) and as of August 2022 held six of the thirteen fastest women's 1500 m marks in history. [40] [41] [42] She ended her yet another successful season with a clear victory at the Zürich circuit's final the following month, this time closing strongly after a tactical race (last lap in 57.75 and last 200 m in 27.8) to earn her third Diamond League 1500 m title. [43] Kipyegon won all her six 1500 m races of the season. [3]

In November interview with Athletics Weekly , she said that in the future she would like to run marathons. [9]

2023–present: World 1500 m and 5000 m records

Kipyegon got her 2023 campaign off to strong start on 4 February with a dominant victory at the Sirikwa Cross Country Classic (10 km) on home soil in Eldoret. [44]

On 2 June, she eventually got the only thing that was missing on her resume, setting a world 1500 m record of 3:49.11 to become the first woman in history to break the 3:50-barrier in the discipline. The 29-year-old sliced almost a second from Dibaba's mark (3:50.07) while running a big negative split at the Rome Diamond League staged that year also in Florence. She hit 800 in 2:04.1, as a pacemaker was asked for (WR pace was 2:02.7), and passed the bell in 2:50.2 (Dibaba hit the bell at 2:50.3). Kipyegon was sensational over the final two laps, running her last 800 in 2:00.6, last 400 in 58.81, and last 200 in 29.2. The entire race field congratulated and embraced her after her lap of honour. [45] [46] [47] [48] [11]

Kipyegon made it two world records in a week after breaking exactly seven days later, on 9 June, Letesenbet Gidey's 5000 metres world standard of 14:06.62 set in 2020. Faith's second world record came as a surprise as it was her first race over the distance since 2015 and the third ever. Racing in a thrilling duel with Letesenbet at the Paris Diamond League, she smashed her old PB (14:31.95) and sliced 1.42 s off that world record with a time of 14:05.20. She overtook her with 600 m to go but Letesenbet was closely following, with both lagging about six seconds behind the world record pace. Kipyegon ran a last lap in 60.6 s and dropped Letesenbet in a sprint finish in the last 200 m timed at 28.1 s, even faster than in her 1500 m world record race. She became only the second woman in history to hold both the 1500 m and 5000 m records simultaneously after Paola Pigni in 1969, and the first Kenyan woman to hold the latter. [49] [50] [51] [29]

Achievements

All information taken from World Athletics profile. [3]

Personal bests

EventTime (m:s)VenueDateNotes
800 metres 1:57.68 Doha, Qatar25 September 2020
1000 metres 2:29.15 Fontvieille, Monaco14 August 2020 AR , 2nd of all time
1500 metres 3:49.11 Florence, Italy2 June 2023 WR
One mile 4:07.64 Fontvieille, Monaco21 July 2023 WR
3000 metres 8:23.55 Doha, Qatar9 May 2014
5000 metres 14:05.20 Paris, France9 June 2023 WR until 17 September 2023
4 × 1500 m relay 16:33.58 Nassau, Bahamas24 May 2014 AR

International competitions

Representing Flag of Kenya.svg  Kenya
YearCompetitionVenuePositionEventResultNotes
2010 World Cross Country Championships Bydgoszcz, Poland4th Junior XC 5.833 km 19:02
1st Junior team 10 pts
2011 World Cross Country Championships Punta Umbria, Spain1st Junior XC 6 km 18:53
2nd Junior team 19 pts
World Youth Championships Villeneuve-d'Ascq, France1st 1500 m 4:09.48 CR
2012 African Cross Country Championships Cape Town, South Africa1st Junior XC 6 km 19:32
World Junior Championships Barcelona, Spain1st 1500 m 4:04.96 CR
Olympic Games London, United Kingdom16th (h) 1500 m 4:08.78
2013 World Cross Country Championships Bydgoszcz, Poland1st Junior XC 6 km 17:51
1st Junior team 14 pts
World Championships Moscow, Russia5th 1500 m 4:05.08
2014 African Cross Country Championships Kampala, Uganda1st Senior XC 8 km 25:33.02
1st Senior team 10 pts
World Relays Nassau, Bahamas1st 4 × 1500 m relay 16:33.58 WR
Commonwealth Games Glasgow, United Kingdom1st 1500 m 4:08.94
African Championships Marrakesh, Morocco5th 1500 m 4:13.46
2015 World Championships Beijing, China2nd 1500 m 4:08.96
2016 Olympic Games Rio de Janeiro, Brazil1st 1500 m 4:08.92
2017 World Cross Country Championships Kampala, Uganda6th Senior XC 9.858 km 32:49
1st Senior team 10 pts
World Championships London, United Kingdom1st 1500 m 4:02.59
2019 World Championships Doha, Qatar2nd 1500 m 3:54.22 NR
2021 Olympic Games Tokyo, Japan1st 1500 m 3:53.11 OR
2022 World Championships Eugene, OR, United States1st 1500 m 3:52.96
2023 World Championships Budapest, Hungary1st 1500 m 3:54.87
1st 5000 m 14:53.88

Circuit wins and titles

1500 metres wins, other events specified in parentheses

National titles

Awards and honours

See also

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