World record holder and three-time Olympic champion is the best ever, but the numbers, and the physiology, just don’t add up
By Amby Burfoot, Editor-At-Large, Marathon Handbook
I wish I knew something about online sports betting. I don’t. But someone could clear a nice chunk of cash on the...
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"I appreciate people taking my world record performance as an inspiration to imagine what could be possible in the future."
By Jonathan Lambert, NPR
Three-time Olympic champion Faith Kipyegon is really, really fast.
In 2023, the Kenyan middle-distance running superstar set three women's...
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Three-time World 1500m champion and world record holder also sets Olympic record in "amazing" run
By Michelle Katami for World Athletics
Faith Kipyegon underlined her status as the queen of the 1500 meters, bagging her third successive Olympic title at the distance at the Paris 2024 Games on...
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Record event prize money awarded; record four U.S. high schoolers sub-4 in same race; Nuguse blasts U.S. indoor & outdoor Mile records; Kipyegon shatters women’s outdoor Mile record, Hiltz U.S. record; official road Mile world records recognized, inaugural road Mile World Championship and more!
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"The road Mile is a very American event and we're quite experienced in them. I'm very proud of myself.”
From World Athletics
World records set in the road Mile by Diribe Welteji and Hobbs Kessler at the World Athletics Road Running Championships Riga 23 have now been ratified.
At the...
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"The road Mile is a very American event and we're quite experienced in them. I'm very proud of myself.”
From World Athletics
Ethiopia’s Diribe Welteji and USA’s Hobbs Kessler shattered the world records to win two thrilling road Mile races at the World Road Running Championships Riga 23 on...
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Free livestream; $50,000 prize purse available
By Jon Mulkeen of World Athletics
Faith Kipyegon showed with her 5000m world record earlier this year that she doesn’t fear the unknown.
She had raced just twice over the distance before that, some eight years prior. But she took on – and ran...
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She had covered the final 800m in 1:59.83 – a time that has won World 800m titles in the past
By Jon Mulkeen for World Athletics
Just moments after U.S. discus thrower Laulaga Tausaga-Collins produced the biggest shock of the World Athletics Championships Budapest 23 so far, Faith Kipyegon...
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The first Kenyan to set the Mile world record; 7 national records as well as all 13 finishers clocked personal records in Monaco
Nicole Jeffery for World Athletics
Was it ever in doubt?
Faith Kipyegon continued to plunder the most revered middle distance marks in the sport, setting her...
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Two-time Olympic and world champion eyes third world record of 2023
From World Athletics
Kenyan distance superstar Faith Kipyegon will have the chance to showcase her brilliance in yet another discipline next month after breaking both the 1500m and 5000m world records on the Wanda Diamond...
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