PARIS :Kenya's Faith Kipyegon shattered the world record in the women's 5,000 metres at the Paris Diamond League meeting on Friday in her first race at the distance in eight years just a week after breaking the world mark in the 1,500m. It was one of three records to fall, with Lamecha Girma of Ethiopia smash
PARIS :Kenya's Faith Kipyegon shattered the world record in the women's 5,000 metres at the Paris Diamond League meeting on Friday in her first race at the distance in eight years just a week after breaking the world mark in the 1,500m.
The 29-year-old Kipyegon, two-time Olympic champion in the 1,500m, sprinted the final lap in about 60 seconds to set the record in an event she had only run twice before in 2015. Girma, the Olympic and world silver medallist, pulled away from the field well before the final bell before crossing in seven minutes 52.11 seconds, lowering the mark of 7:53.63 set by Qatar's Saif Saaeed Shaheen on Sept. 3, 2004 in Brussels."I'm feeling so happy. Happy and very proud," Girma said."I felt so fast during the race, so confident. The world record is not a surprise, I planned to beat it tonight in Paris.
The race was billed as a battle with Olympic 100m champion Lamond Marcell Jacobs, who withdrew from two previous Diamond League meets, but the Italian struggled to seventh in 10.21.
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