Faith Chepngetich Kipyegon is a Kenyan professional middle- and long-distance runner who specializes in the 1500 meters event. She is widely regarded as the greatest female 1500 meters runner in history. Kipyegon has had an exceptional career, winning numerous titles and breaking multiple records.
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Faith Kipyegon Biography
Faith Chepngetich Kipyegon (born 10 January 1994) is a Kenyan professional middle- and long-distance runner who competes mainly in the 1500 metres. A two-time back-to-back Olympic champion with the Games record and a two-time world champion, she is the only woman to win four global 1500 m titles and only the second woman to claim consecutive Olympic titles in the event.
Faith Kipyegon Age
Kipyegon was born on 10th January 1994. His age is 29 years old as of 2023.
Faith Kipyegon Height and Weight
Faith Kipyegon stands 5.2 Feet and weigh 42 kg.
Faith Kipyegon Parents and Siblings
Faith Kipyegon was the eighth of nine children growing up on a farm in Ndabibit village near Keringet, Nakuru County in the Kenyan Rift Valley. She comes from a Kalenjin tribe. Her elder sister and former training partner Beatrice Mutai is a 10 km and half marathon specialist. Her father Samuel Kipyegon Koech was a 400 m and 800 m runner in his youth, while her mother Linah Koech had also contact with athletics. Faith was a soccer player until she was introduced to athletics at school aged 14. She lined up for a one-kilometer run in P.E. class and won that race by 20 metres. She attended Winners Girls High School in Keringet.
Faith Kipyegon Career
On the track Kipyegon has won or finished second in every major championships since 2015, and is regarded as the greatest female 1500 metres runner in history. She is the world record holder for the distance and for the 5000 metres, and the African record holder for the 1000 metres. With her time of 3:49.11 in the 1500 m, set on 2 June 2023 in Florence, she became the first and the only woman in history to break the 3:50-barrier in the discipline. Just seven days later, Kipyegon set also a 5000 m world record in Paris.
She won Olympic titles at the 2016 Rio and 2020 Tokyo Games, and world titles at the 2017 and 2022 World Athletics Championships. Kipyegon earned world silver medals in 2015, when she lost only to the multiple world record-holder Genzebe Dibaba, and in 2019, when she returned after giving birth in the previous year. Kipyegon holds two of the three fastest female 1500 m marks in history (3/6, 7/14) and is one of only five athletes who dominated at every world age-group level in their track and field specialty (under-18, U20 and senior) and set a senior world record.
Kipyegon won her specialist event at the 2011 World U18 and 2012 World U20 Championships. At age 18, she did not reach the semi-finals of the 2012 London Olympics, but won the junior races at the 2011 and 2013 World Cross Country Championships, and finished fifth at the 2013 World Championships. She is also the 2014 Commonwealth Games champion and a three-time Diamond League winner.
Kipyegon was cited as one of the Top 100 most influential Africans by New African magazine in 2017.
Kipyegon made it two world records in a week after breaking exactly seven days later, on 9 June, Letesenbet Gidey's 5000 metres world standard of 14:06.62 set in 2001. Faith's second world record came as a surprise as it was her first race over the distance since 2015 and the third ever. Racing in a thrilling duel with Letesenbet at the Paris Diamond League, she smashed her old PB (14:31.95) and sliced 1.42 s off that world record with a time of 14:05.20. She overtook her with 600 m to go but Letesenbet was closely following, with both lagging about six seconds behind the world record pace. Kipyegon ran a last lap in 60.6 s and dropped Letesenbet in a sprint finish in the last 200 m timed at 28.1 s, even faster than in her 1500 m world record race. She became only the second woman in history to hold both the 1500 m and 5000 m records simultaneously after Paola Pigni in 1969, and the first Kenyan woman to hold the latter.
Faith Kipyegon Husband
Kipyegon is married to middle-distance runner Timothy Kitum, the 2012 Olympic 800 m bronze medallist. They have a daughter, Alyn, born in June 2018.
She trains in Kaptagat (and Kapsabet) coached since the end of 2017 by Patrick Sang, triple global 3000 m steeplechase silver medallist, who is also coaching marathon world record-holder Eliud Kipchoge.
Faith Kipyegon Net Worth
Faith Kipyegon has an estimated net worth of more than USD 6 million.
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