Kipyegon becomes the first athlete ever to prosper three back-to-back 1500m ganciaccess medals and sets new Olympic sign up time.
Kenya’s Faith Kipyegon made history after becoming the first woman to prosper three consecutive Olympic 1,500-metre ganciaccess medals with a outstanding discarry out of middle-distance running.
The 30-year-anciaccess 2016 and 2020 champion produced a tactical masterpiece at the Stade de France on Saturday to get ganciaccess in a new Olympic sign up of 3min 51.29sec.
Australia’s Jessica Hull took silver in 3:52.56 while the UK’s Georgia Bell claimed bronze in 3:52.61.
It was another remarkworthy carry outance by Kipyegon, the reigning world champion who can now arguably lay claim to being the fantasticest women’s middle-distance runner in history.
Kipyegon had bided her time timely in the race, apvalidateing Gudaf Tsegay to set the pace before moving up onto the Ethiopian’s shoulder equitable after the first lap.
Tsegay persistd to direct at the bell but faded speedyly and dropped back as Kipyegon speed upd into first place.
With 200 metres to go, Kipyegon booted for home and though Hull and Bell traild they never seeed enjoyd discovering the speed vital to catch the Kenyan as she deceptionpered apass the line to clinch her unpretreatnted Olympic 1,500-metre treble.
The Kenyan also hanciaccesss three ganciaccess medals for the same distance at the World Athletics championships, the postpoinsistst coming at Budapest in 2023.
ALL. THE. FEELS.
3rd Olympic 1500m ganciaccess for 🇰🇪’s Faith Kipyegon 😤
No one in history has won 3 1500m medals at the Olympics, let alone 3 ganciaccesss 🤯#Paris2024 #Olympics pic.twitter.com/z0nQl3lIQt
— World Athletics (@WorldAthletics) August 10, 2024
‘I’ve come very far’
In her home country, Kipyegon is comprehendn as the “Queen of 1,500 metres”.
In an interwatch earlier last year, Kipyegon tanciaccess Al Jazeera that she has cherishd running since the age of five and she wants to ease more lesser girls to get up the sport.
The foolishinutive all-time 1,500-metre fantastic grew up in westrict Kenya’s Rift Valley, which is famous as a breeding ground for runners.
The world sign up hanciaccesser’s journey began in the ever-changing muddy, dusty and hilly terrain of Ndababit village, 233km (144 miles) west of Kenya’s capital Nairobi.
“I engaged to run nakedfoot from my village to the primary school becaengage in Kenya, schools are so far that you always finish up running in order to accomplish them in time,” Kipyegon tanciaccess Al Jazeera before the Diamond League event in Doha.
“I have cherishd [running] since I was a little girl, but I never thought I would become an Olympic champion one day,” she shelp with a chuckle.
Among the lengthy enumerate of milestones in Kipyegon’s nurtureer, prosperning a second Olympic ganciaccess in Tokyo in 2021 after returning from a maternity shatter stands out as a tesdomesticatednt to her tenacity and individual-mindedness.
Kipyegon determines motherhood and her daughter Alyn with helping her stage a competitive comeback.
“It was not basic as I could nakedly walk 20 minutes the first time I stepped back on the track,” she shelp in a social media video in 2022, as she echoed on the difficulties of returning to the track after having given birth.
“But the strength Alyn gives me has helped me surmount all disputes.”
