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Times of Oman
10 hours ago
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- Times of Oman
Chebet, Kipyegon break world records at Diamond League in Eugene
WASHINGTON: Kenya's Beatrice Chebet and Faith Kipyegon smashed world records of 5000 meters and 1500 meters respectively at Wanda Diamond League meeting in Eugene, also known as the Prefontaine Classic, on Saturday. Double Olympic champion Chebet became the first woman in history to finish 5000m under 14 minutes. The 10,000m world record holder broke away from the rest of the field along with Gudaf Tsegay and Agnes Jebet Ngetich after 2000m. In the last 200m of homestretch, Chebet was away and clear to win in 13 minutes and 58.06 seconds, taking 2.15 seconds off Tsegay's world record. Ngetich took second place in 14:01.29, the third-fastest time in history, and Tsegay placed third in 14:04.41. "I'm so happy to become the first woman to run under 14 minutes," said Chebet. "After Rome [where she ran 14:03.69], I knew that I was capable of running a world record. I told myself, 'if Faith [Kipyegon] is trying for a world record in Eugene, why not me too?'" Chebet's compatriot Kipyegon broke her own 1500m world record with 3:48.68. The multiple world and Olympic champion had made history last week by producing the fastest mile performance at a challenge race in Paris. Kipyegon tracked the pacemaker closely through 400m and 800m, but she had Olympic silver medalist Jessica Hull for company. The Australian was still just a stride or two behind Kipyegon when going into the final lap, but the 31-year-old world record holder eventually won by almost three seconds. Ethiopia's Diribe Welteji came through for second with 3:51.44 ahead of Hull (3:52.67).
France 24
21 hours ago
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- France 24
Kenyans Chebet, Kipyegon light up Eugene Diamond League with world records
Chebet, Olympic gold medallist at 5,000 and 10,000m in Paris last year, delivered a devastating finish to become the first woman to break the 14-minute barrier in the 5,000. The 25-year-old said she was inspired by her own strong showing in Rome last month, and by Kipyegon's ambitious but ultimately unsuccessful bid to become the first woman to break four minutes for the mile just over a week ago in Paris. "In Rome I was just running to win a race, but after running 14:03, I said that I'm capable of running a world record," she said. "When I was coming here to Eugene, I was coming to prepare to run a world record, and I said I have to try. I said 'If Faith is trying, why not me?'" The leading group of Chebet, Ethiopian Gudaf Tsegay and Kenyan Agnes Jebet Ngetich had fallen off world record pace with several laps remaining, but Chebet mustered a last mighty kick on the final lap. Jebet Ngetich was second in 14:01.29 and Tsegay -- who set the previous world record of 14:00.21 on the same Hayward Field track in September 2023 -- was third in 14:04.41. Kipyegon, the three-time reigning Olympic champion, won the 1,500m in 3:48.68, improving on the record of 3:49.04 she set in July 2024. The 31-year-old Kenyan was running her first 1,500m the season, having come up short in her bid for mile history in a special event in Paris. Ethiopia's Diribe Welteji finished second in 3:51.44, overhauling Australia's Olympic silver medallist Jessica Hull, who had stuck to Kipyegon until the final lap but settled for third in 3:52.67. Thompson triumphs in 100m With the World Championships looming in Tokyo on September 13-21, Jamaica's Kishane Thompson and American Melissa Jefferson-Wooden continued their stellar sprint campaigns with 100m victories. Olympic silver medallist Thompson clocked 9.85sec to win the men's 100m, confidently following up on his blistering 9.75sec at the Jamaican national trials that made him the sixth-fastest man all-time at the distance. Thompson easily out-paced Britain's Zharnel Hughes (9.91) and American Trayvon Bromell (9.94) and said the race was another learning experience as he gears up for an expected world title tilt against American Noah Lyles -- who bested him by just .005sec for Olympic gold in Paris. "I'm the only one that can stop me," Thompson said. "I don't say that to brag but to be honest. Once I better my execution, amazing things are going to happen." Jefferson-Wooden outdueled Olympic gold medallist Julien Alfred in the women's 100m, holding off the Saint Lucia star to win in 10.75sec -- just outside her season-leading 10.73 set at the Philadelphia Grand Slam Track event. Alfred was second in 10.77 and Ivorian Marie-Josee Ta Lou was third in 10.90. American Sha'Carri Richardson, who revealed this week that an injury in February had slowed her season start, finished ninth and last in 11.19sec, a slight improvement on her only previous 100m of the season, an 11.47 at Tokyo in May. Sweden's two-time Olympic champion Armand "Mondo" Duplantis won the pole vault with a leap of 6.00m. Duplantis finished comfortably ahead of Americans Sam Kendricks and Austin Miller, who took second and third with clearances of 5.80m, but he came up empty on three attempts to better the world record of 6.28m that he set in Stockholm three weeks ago. In addition to records, there were a string of world-leading performances. Rising Ethiopian talent Biniam Mehary, 18, won the 10,000m in 26:43.82. Botswana's Olympic champion Letsile Tebogo won the 200m in 19.76sec and Bahrain's Olympic champion Winfred Yavi threatened the world record on the way to a world-leading 8:45.25 in the 3,000m steeplechase. Rudy Winkler set an American record in winning the hammer with a throw of 83.16m, American Joe Kovacs won the shot put with a thow of 22.48 and Olympic long jump gold medallist Tara Davis-Woodhall equalled the season's best with a leap of 7.07m.
Yahoo
21 hours ago
- Sport
- Yahoo
Kenyans Chebet, Kipyegon light up Eugene Diamond League with world records
Kenya's Beatrice Chebet is the first woman to break 14 minutes in the 5,000m, winning at the Eugene Diamond League meeting in a world record of 13:58.06 (Tiziana FABI) Beatrice Chebet shattered the women's 5,000m world record with a groundbreaking time of 13min 58.06sec as fellow Kenyan Faith Kipyegon lowered her own 1,500m world record at the Diamond League athletics meeting in Eugene, Oregon. Chebet, Olympic gold medallist at 5,000 and 10,000m in Paris last year, delivered a devastating finish to become the first woman to break the 14-minute barrier in the 5,000. Advertisement The 25-year-old said she was inspired by her own strong showing in Rome last month, and by Kipyegon's ambitious but ultimately unsuccessful bid to become the first woman to break four minutes for the mile just over a week ago in Paris. "In Rome I was just running to win a race, but after running 14:03, I said that I'm capable of running a world record," she said. "When I was coming here to Eugene, I was coming to prepare to run a world record, and I said I have to try. I said 'If Faith is trying, why not me?'" The leading group of Chebet, Ethiopian Gudaf Tsegay and Kenyan Agnes Jebet Ngetich had fallen off world record pace with several laps remaining, but Chebet mustered a last mighty kick on the final lap. Advertisement Jebet Ngetich was second in 14:01.29 and Tsegay -- who set the previous world record of 14:00.21 on the same Hayward Field track in September 2023 -- was third in 14:04.41. Kipyegon, the three-time reigning Olympic champion, won the 1,500m in 3:48.68, improving on the record of 3:49.04 she set in July 2024. The 31-year-old Kenyan was running her first 1,500m the season, having come up short in her bid for mile history in a special event in Paris. Ethiopia's Diribe Welteji finished second in 3:51.44, overhauling Australia's Olympic silver medallist Jessica Hull, who had stuck to Kipyegon until the final lap but settled for third in 3:52.67. Advertisement - Thompson triumphs in 100m - With the World Championships looming in Tokyo on September 13-21, Jamaica's Kishane Thompson and American Melissa Jefferson-Wooden continued their stellar sprint campaigns with 100m victories. Olympic silver medallist Thompson clocked 9.85sec to win the men's 100m, confidently following up on his blistering 9.75sec at the Jamaican national trials that made him the sixth-fastest man all-time at the distance. Thompson easily out-paced Britain's Zharnel Hughes (9.91) and American Trayvon Bromell (9.94) and said the race was another learning experience as he gears up for an expected world title tilt against American Noah Lyles -- who bested him by just .005sec for Olympic gold in Paris. Advertisement "I'm the only one that can stop me," Thompson said. "I don't say that to brag but to be honest. Once I better my execution, amazing things are going to happen." Jefferson-Wooden outdueled Olympic gold medallist Julien Alfred in the women's 100m, holding off the Saint Lucia star to win in 10.75sec -- just outside her season-leading 10.73 set at the Philadelphia Grand Slam Track event. Alfred was second in 10.77 and Ivorian Marie-Josee Ta Lou was third in 10.90. American Sha'Carri Richardson, who revealed this week that an injury in February had slowed her season start, finished ninth and last in 11.19sec, a slight improvement on her only previous 100m of the season, an 11.47 at Tokyo in May. Advertisement Sweden's two-time Olympic champion Armand "Mondo" Duplantis won the pole vault with a leap of 6.00m. Duplantis finished comfortably ahead of Americans Sam Kendricks and Austin Miller, who took second and third with clearances of 5.80m, but he came up empty on three attempts to better the world record of 6.28m that he set in Stockholm three weeks ago. In addition to records, there were a string of world-leading performances. Rising Ethiopian talent Biniam Mehary, 18, won the 10,000m in 26:43.82. Botswana's Olympic champion Letsile Tebogo won the 200m in 19.76sec and Bahrain's Olympic champion Winfred Yavi threatened the world record on the way to a world-leading 8:45.25 in the 3,000m steeplechase. Advertisement Rudy Winkler set an American record in winning the hammer with a throw of 83.16m, American Joe Kovacs won the shot put with a thow of 22.48 and Olympic long jump gold medallist Tara Davis-Woodhall equalled the season's best with a leap of 7.07m. rg/bb/js
Straits Times
a day ago
- Sport
- Straits Times
Kenya's Kipyegon, Chebet break world records in Eugene
Sign up now: Get ST's newsletters delivered to your inbox Kenya's Beatrice Chebet smashed the women's 5,000 metres world record and compatriot Faith Kipyegon broke her own 1,500m record again as the Eugene Diamond League meet lived up to its billing on Saturday. Olympic champion Chebet ran 13 minutes 58.06 seconds to better the time set by Gudaf Tsegay by over two seconds, the Ethiopian's 14:00.21 obliterated when the Kenyan left Tsegay for dust with 200 metres to go as she sprinted for the line. Chebet looked in shock when she saw the time, adding to her world 10,000 metres record set in Eugene last year, but she had been threatening the record, running 14:03.69 in Rome last month. "I'm so happy, after running in Rome, I said I have to prepare for a record, because in Rome I was just running to win a race, but after running 14:03, I said that I'm capable of running a world record," Chebet said. "So, let me go back home, and then come to Eugene. When I was coming here to Eugene, I was coming to prepare to run a world record, and I said I have to try." Tsegay, along with Kenyan Agnes Jebet Ngetich, kept pace with Chebet for almost the entire race, but had no answer when Chebet kicked for home, and Jebet Ngetich finished second in 14:01.29, the third fastest time ever. The 50th Prefontaine Classic promised fireworks, and in the final race of the evening Kipyegon ran a time of three minutes 48.68 seconds, improving her previous world mark of 3:49.04 set in Paris last July. Kipyegon, triple Olympic champion over the distance, recently fell short in her attempt to become the first woman to run a mile in under four minutes, but the 31-year-old shook that disappointment off in style. The Kenyan upped the pace down the back straight, powering around the final bend and pushed for the line, her eyes wide in disbelief as she glanced at the clock as she broke the tape. Sweden's Mondo Duplantis failed in his bid to break his own world pole vault record for a 13th time. Duplantis, who recorded his best jump of 6.28 metres in Stockholm in June, faced little competition, with nobody left at 5.90, and after clearing six metres he attempted 6.29 but was unsuccessful in all three attempts. The men's 100m was dominated by Jamaican Olympic silver medallist Kishane Thompson, winning in a time of 9.85 seconds, one tenth of a second off his personal best set eight days ago, with Briton Zharnel Hughes in second. "I'm the only one that can stop me," Thompson said. "I don't say that to brag, but to be honest, once I better my execution, amazing things are going to happen." Olympic 400m metres hurdles champion and world record holder Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone took on the flat race at the same distance and held off a late surge from fellow-American Aaliyah Butler. American Yared Nuguse looked like threatening the world mile record before a late collapse saw him caught before the line by Dutchman Niels Laros. "I didn't get the record, but I'm still at a really good place right now," Nuguse said. REUTERS
New York Times
a day ago
- Sport
- New York Times
Faith Kipyegon, Beatrice Chebet smash world records at Prefontaine Classic
Just over a week ago, Faith Kipyegon was in Paris, trying to become the first woman to run a sub-four-minute mile. She came up short, but still posted a time that, had it been eligible, would have qualified as a world record. On Saturday, she got the real thing. The Kenyan middle-distance star reset her own world record in the women's 1,500-meter, posting a 3:48.68 at the Prefontaine Classic in Eugene, Ore., to top her previous mark of 3:49.04, set almost a year ago to the day. Advertisement She was the second Kenyan to set a world record Saturday at Hayward Field. Earlier, Beatrice Chebet pulled off the same feat in the women's 5,000-meter. Running just in front of world-record holder Gudaf Tsegay of Ethiopia as the finish neared in a blistering race, Chebet found another gear and left a tired Tsegay to watch as she cruised to the line and made history. Chebet finished in 13:58.06 to seize the world record and become the first woman to run the distance in under 14 minutes. 🚨BEATRICE CHEBET BREAKS 14 MINUTES FOR A NEW 5000M WORLD RECORD! 📺: NBC & Peacock | #Pre50 — NBC Olympics & Paralympics (@NBCOlympics) July 5, 2025 The mark was more than two seconds faster than the previous world record of 14:00.21, set by Tsegay in September 2023, also at Hayward Field. Until Saturday, only one other person had come within four seconds of Tsegay's record. But that one person was Chebet last month. The 25-year-old, who's also the reigning Olympic champion in the event, posted a then-personal-best time of 14:03.69 in June in Rome to join Tsegay as the only two women to run the 5,000 in less than 14:05. Chebet now owns five of the 10 best times ever in the event. Kenya's Agnes Jebet Ngetich added her name to the sub-14:05 list Saturday, posting the third-best time ever in the event to take second in 14:01.29. Tsegay finished in third at 14:04.41. Kipyegon and Chebet's runs were two of the highlights of a busy day in Eugene that also featured Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, a 400-meter hurdles specialist, running the flat version of that distance. McLaughlin-Levrone won the race, posting a personal season-best time of 49.43, the sixth-fastest in 2025. The field had some notable absences, including current world-lead holder and Paris silver medalist Salwa Eid Naser of Bahrain and the Dominican Republic's Marileidy Paulino, the Olympic champion. Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone cruises to victory in the 400m with a season's best. ⭐️ 📺: NBC & Peacock | #Pre50 — NBC Olympics & Paralympics (@NBCOlympics) July 5, 2025 'Not my best work, honestly,' McLaughlin-Levrone told NBC Sports' Lewis Johnson after the race. 'Just happy to be back out after a month (off) of racing, shake out the dust a little bit. … A lot to work on, a lot to go and look back at. But, grateful for the win.' The women's 100-meter featured all three podium finishers from the Summer Olympics. American Melissa Jefferson-Wooden, the Paris bronze medalist, won it Saturday in 10.75 seconds, holding off Olympic champion Julien Alfred of Saint Lucia (10.77). Sha'Carri Richardson, the American star who won silver in Paris, finished last Saturday in 11.19. Advertisement In the men's 100-meter, Jamaica's Kishane Thompson — the Olympic silver medalist in Paris — cruised to a win in 9.85 seconds, topping Great Britain's Zharnel Hughes and American Trayvon Bromell. Thompson was the only runner in the field who was also in the Olympic final, won in a photo finish by his American rival Noah Lyles. American star Tara Davis-Woodhall came up big when she needed it most in the women's long jump, going for 7.07 meters on her final attempt to take the win away from Germany's Malaika Mihambo, who went 7.01. Olympic 200-meter champion Letsile Tebogo of Botswana posted a world-lead time in the men's 200-meter, finishing in 19.76. In the men's hammer throw, American Rudy Winkler set a national record and a world-lead distance of 83.16 meters to win in Eugene. The 30-year-old took sixth in the hammer throw at the Paris Olympics.
