Silesia: Kenya’s Faith Kipyegon just missed out on the long-standing world record in the women’s 3000m at the Silesia Diamond League meet on Saturday. Six weeks after improving her own world 1500m record in Eugene, the three-time Olympic and four-time world gold medallist clocked 8:07.04 over the non-Olympic distance.
That fell just short of the 8:06.11 world record set by China’s Wang Junxia in 1993.
“It is all about Tokyo now,” Kipyegon said in reference to the September 13-21 world championships in the Japanese capital. “I am so happy. I wanted to run a longer distance. To be honest, I did not see the clock on the finish line because I was so tired. But now I am very satisfied with the time.” Agencies
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