Two-time Olympic and two-time world 1,500m champion Faith Kipyegon recorded another victory on the track. The Kenyan won her crowning event at the first Diamond League event of the year in Doha with a world season’s best of 3:58.57 min.
The Ethiopian athletes took the other two places in the top three. Diribe Welteji finished second in 3:59.34 min and Freweyni Hailu third in 4:00.29 min.
The Australians Jessica Hull and Abbey Caldwell remained close to the medals’ zone.
Faith Kipyegon is a Kenyan middle-distance runner specializing in the 1,500m. A Rio 2016 Olympics and Tokyo 2020 Olympics 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 1,500m 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.
