Olympic 1500m champion, Faith Kipyegon ran a world leading time at the Pre Classic Diamond League Meeting that will be held on Saturday (28) in Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon.
The 28 year-old who is a two time Olympic champion, has finished in the top two at every global championship she has competed in since 2014, led eight athletes who competed in the Olympic 1500m final in Tokyo, but with a clear mission in her head to perform one of her best racing ever,
Kipyegon who took eighteen months maternity leave to give birth to her daughter Alyn in 2018, made her come-back with a win at the 2019 Prefontaine Classic, lived again to her expectations as she set a new Meet record, World leading time this season and the ninth fastest time in the world when she cut the tape in a time of 3:52.59 which is also her second fast time after the 3:51.07 that she set last year in Herculis.
Kipyegon was followed a distant later by the World 1500m bronze medallist Gudaf Tsegay, who was making her fifth appearance of her career, when she came home in second place in a time of 3:54.29 with the 2018 North American, Central American and Caribbean bronze medallist, Gabriela Debues-Stafford from Canada closing the podium three finishes in 3:58.62.
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