The Olympic and world 1,500m champion’s return to the Diamond League didn’t disappoint. Religion Kipyegon chased Genzebe Dibaba’s world file of three:50.07 in Monaco on Wednesday, however got here up three tenths of a second quick, ending in a Kenyan nationwide file of three:50.37.
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Religion Kipyegon 🇰🇪 powers to three:50.37 and takes 1500m victory!
She solely misses the world file by .30!#MonacoDL pic.twitter.com/9h81gqjL6k
— World Athletics (@WorldAthletics) August 10, 2022
The pacers took Kipyegon by 800m in 2:01.64, however dropped off after 900m. Kipyegon ran solo for the ultimate 500m in a single minute and 16 seconds, barely lacking the file Dibaba ran on the identical observe in 2015.
Apart from the elusive world file, the 28-year-old back-to-back Olympic champion has completed all of it. Beside being the nationwide file holder (her earlier file was 3:51.07), she is now the second-fastest girl of all time over 1,500m.
Kipyegon’s run wasn’t the one noteworthy efficiency of the day. The five-time world 100m champion, Jamaica’s Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, ran a world-leading 10.61 seconds within the girls’s 100m. This was the fourth quickest time ever within the 100m and Fraser-Pryce’s third sub-10.7 time within the final seven days.
I don’t have the phrases but to explain how I’m feeling. #Godisgood pic.twitter.com/T0E8zOd7Nh
— ShellyAnnFraserPryce (@realshellyannfp) August 10, 2022
Within the males’s 3,000m, the pack went out at 3:39 1,500m tempo to problem Daniel Komen’s world file of seven:20.67. Berihu Aregawi of Ethiopia led till 100m to go, as Thierry Ndikumwenayo of Burundi handed him on the skin to return dwelling with the victory in a Diamond League file time of seven:25.93. His time was additionally a world-lead and a Burundian nationwide file. In June, Ndikumwenayo additionally grew to become the primary man from Burundi to run below 13 minutes for five,000m.
The up-and-coming American distance runner, Grant Fisher, was third in a private finest and North American file time of seven:28.48.
The primary occasion on the observe was the lads’s 1,000m, and all eyes have been on the battle between Canada’s world 800m bronze medallist Marco Arop and world champions Jake Wightman and Emmanuel Korir. Arop smashed the 10-year-old Canadian 1,000m file by two seconds in 2:14.35. You may learn extra about his record-setting race right here.
