In solely her second race of the yr, Olympic champion Religion Kipyegon of Kenya broke her personal 1,500m world report (pending ratification) on the Paris Diamond League on Sunday, bashing out a 3:49.04 to take seven-hundredths of a second off her earlier report of three:49.11, set simply over a yr in the past on the 2023 Florence Diamond League. Within the course of, she led many of the discipline to non-public bests, plus two different nationwide information and an Oceania space report for Australia’s Jessica Hull, who ran 3:50.83. (Laura Muir completed third with a brand new British report (3:53.79), and Agathe Guillemot of France completed eighth with a nationwide report of three:58.05.)
ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED 🤯@Kipyegon_Faith breaks her personal 1500m world report* to complete off the @MEETINGPARIS in historic model ‼️
3:49.04 ⏰
*Topic to the same old ratification procedures #DiamondLeague pic.twitter.com/5h584da19i
— World Athletics (@WorldAthletics) July 7, 2024
There have been two pacers for the race–one for Kipyegon and one for the remainder of the sector, however the brave Hull made the choice to go together with Kipyegon early, and tailed her carefully all through the race, even effectively after the bell. Kipyegon lastly pulled away within the closing 200 metres.
Kipyegon was injured over the winter and didn’t race. Along with the 1,500m, she holds the world report within the mile and is the previous 5,000m world report holder. She is the reigning Olympic and world champion within the 1,500m and the 2023 world champion within the 5,000m.
Regardless of it being solely her second race of the season and her first at sea degree, Kipyegon confirmed she continues to be the one to beat and is the favorite to defend her Olympic 1,500m title in Paris in a month’s time.
Mahuchikh breaks girls’s excessive leap world report
Kipyegon’s was not the one world report damaged in Paris on Sunday: Ukraine’s Yaroslava Mahuchikh soared to 2 metres and 10 centimetres to interrupt the ladies’s excessive leap world report, which had stood at 2.09 for an unimaginable 37 years. Mahuchikh’s earlier greatest was 2.06m; the earlier world report was set by Stefka Kostadinova of Bulgaria in 1987.
You’ll be able to view the total outcomes from the 2024 Paris Diamond League, right here.
