Faith Kipyegon starts her summer season at the Diamond League in Doha

Two-time world and Olympic 1,500m champion Faith Kipyegon will return to the Diamond League in Doha on May 5, when she will start her summer season.

The 29-year-old Kenyan athlete recorded the second time in the all-time world rankings in the 1,500m in Monaco last year when she clocked 3:50.37 min. She narrowly missed Genzebe Dibaba’s world record.

Faith Kipyegon will have the opportunity to defend her world title in Budapest in August.

Faith Kipyegon is a Kenyan middle-distance runner specializing in the 1,500m. A Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020 Olympic champion with the Games record at the latter, she is the second woman in history to claim back-to-back Olympic titles at the event. On the track, Faith Kipyegon has won or finished second in every major championship since 2015 and is regarded as the greatest female 1n500m runner in history.

She is a two-time world champion in 2017 and 2022 as well as a two-time world silver medallist from 2015, when she lost only to the multiple world record-holder Genzebe Dibaba, and 2019, when she returned after giving birth in the previous year. In August 2022, she achieved the second-fastest time in history, setting her consecutive Kenyan record.