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Kenyan track star adds another gem on her crowded tiara.
Maverick Kenyan track star Faith Kipyegon set a new 1500m World Record In Paris Diamond League on 7th July 2024 just days before the entire world converges on the French capital for the Olympic Games.
Kipyegon, who launched her season with the Olympic trials where she easily dominated to qualify for the games, running a blistering 3:49.04, smashing the 3.49.11 that she set in Monaco a year ago.
This has now proved the doubters who envisioned her not doing well at the Olympics after struggling with fitness issues wrong, as she has shown her indomitability while not even fully conditioned for racing, considering this is only her second event of the year.
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21:00 - 07.07.2024
Kenya's Jacob Krop intensifies Olympic preparations with 3000m impressive Diamond League victory
Jacob Krop sets new personal best time in 3000m race as he steps up preparations for Olympic games.
At the Paris Olympics, the world’s biggest extravaganza this year, Kipyegon will be doubling in 1500m and 5,000m just as she did at the Budapest World Championships last year. The Olympic Games will run from July 26 to August 11.
At the national trials, and before she kicked off her preparations for today’s Paris Diamond League, Kipyegon promised: "I am looking forward to a bright summer…. I am excited to be back on the track and executing it well”
Kipyegon has dominated in the arena where she made history in 2023 as she became the first athlete to break more than one world record in a single Diamond League season.
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21:00 - 07.07.2024
Winfred Yavi dominates Kenyans in Paris Diamond League 3000m steeplechase
It was a surprising race as Winfred Yavi triumphed and Beatrice Chepkoech finished a disappointing ninth at the Paris Diamond League.
Her 5,000m record of 14:05.20 was the second of three, and came just a week after she had broken the 1500m world record in Florence.
The 5,000m mark was, however, later broken by Ethiopia’s Gudaf Tsegay at the Diamond League Final in Eugene, and despite the lowering of her record the track star still went ahead to end the season as the 2023 Diamond League champion, claiming her fourth career trophy in the 1500m.
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