A week after breaking the women’s 1,500m world record, Kenya’s Faith Kipyegon put her name in the record books again, this time setting a world record in the women’s 5,000m at the Diamond League meet at Stade Charlety.
“I didn’t think about the world record, I don’t know how I made it,” Kipyegon, who fell onto the track after the race, exhausted and emotional, said, per World Athletics.
When I saw that it was a world record, I was so surprised – I just wanted to improve on my PB, the world record was not my plan.
“The world record is not a surprise.
World and Olympic champion Ingebrigtsen set a world best 7:54.10, telling reporters afterwards: “Being able to break this mark feels amazing.”“It is my first world best outdoors.
Persons:
Kipyegon, Letesenbet Gidey, “, ” Kipyegon, –, Gidey, ”, Ethiopia’s, Qatar’s Saif Saaeed Shaheen, Ethiopia's, Girma, Jeff Pachoud, Norway’s Jakob Ingebrigtsen, Ingebrigtsen
Organizations:
CNN, Diamond League, Stade Charlety, Athletics, ” Records, Getty
Locations:
Paris, AFP