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Kipyegon shines again, comes close to breaking another record

Kenya's Faith Kipyegon competes in the women's 1000m event during the Xiamen IAAF Diamond League athletics meeting at Egret Stadium in Xiamen, in China’s eastern Fujian province, on April 26, 2025. [AFP]

Kenya’s Faith Kipyegon just missed out on the long-standing world record in the women's 3,000m at the Silesia Diamond League meet on Saturday.

Six weeks after improving her own world 1,500m record in Eugene, the three-time Olympic and four-time world gold medallist clocked 8min 07.04sec over the non-Olympic distance.

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