{"id":117624,"date":"2025-07-06T08:03:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-06T08:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2025\/07\/06\/power-of-faith-kipyegon-storms-to-world-record-at-prefontaine-classic\/"},"modified":"2025-07-06T08:03:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-06T08:03:11","slug":"power-of-faith-kipyegon-storms-to-world-record-at-prefontaine-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/power-of-faith-kipyegon-storms-to-world-record-at-prefontaine-classic\/","title":{"rendered":"Power of Faith! Kipyegon storms to world record at Prefontaine Classic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NAIROBI, Kenya, July 6 \u2013 Triple Olympic champion Faith Kipyegon smashed the world record for the women\u2019s 1500m \u2014 again \u2014 at the Prefontaine Classic on Saturday night.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kipyegon clocked 3:48.68 to cut the tape, smashing the previous record of 3:49.04 that she set at the Paris Diamond League on July 7, last year.<\/p>\n<p>Ethiopian Diribe Welteji clocked a personal best (PB) of 3:51.44 to finish second as Australian Jessica Hull timed a season\u2019s best (SB) of 3:52.67 to take third place.<\/p>\n<p>Kipyegon\u2019s feat on Saturday came just over a week after she fell agonisingly short of making history as the first woman to run the mile in under four minutes.<\/p>\n<p>The double world record holder clocked 4:06.42 in the \u2018Breaking4\u2019 challenge in Paris \u2014 setting an unofficial world record for the mile in the process.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya, July 6 \u2013 Triple Olympic champion Faith Kipyegon smashed the world record for the women\u2019s 1500m \u2014 again \u2014 at the Prefontaine Classic on Saturday night. Kipyegon clocked 3:48.68 to cut the tape, smashing the previous record of 3:49.04 that she set at the Paris Diamond League on July 7, last year. Ethiopian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}