Faith Kipyegon yet again turned a 1500m final into a race against the clock rather than the rest of the world at the World Athletics Championships Tokyo 25 on Tuesday (16). Kipyegon was long ago crowned the queen of middle-distance running and this generational talent merely added to that reputation with yet another global gold. This was her fourth world title for the event, plus this season she broke her own world record with a time of 3:48.68, not to mention that she is a three-time Olympic champion for the distance. There were echoes of the night before inside the Japan National Stadium, when 24 hours earlier Mondo Duplantis once again showed he was on another level to his rivals with a world record of 6.30m in the pole vault. Kipyegon couldn’t match the Swede’s world record achievement – the one she’d set in Eugene in July had already been sensationally quick. And yet her winning time of 3:52.15 was almost three seconds quicker than her compatriot Dorcus Ewoi in second (3...
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