Kipyegon aiming for women's 1 000m world record
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Kenya's Faith Kipyegon will be aiming to set a new women's 1 000m world record at the Memorial Van Damme, a Wanda Diamond League meeting, in Brussels on 4 September.
The reigning Olympic 1 500m champion came up 0.17 shy of Svetlana Masterkova's 2:28.98 record at the Diamond League meeting in Monaco earlier this month, but will give it another try in the same stadium and meeting where the record was set in 1996.
Kipyegon's 2:29:15 performance in Monaco elevated the 26-year-old Kenyan to second of all-time over the distance.
Organisers also announced that fellow Kenyan Brigid Kosgei, the world record-holder in the marathon, has joined the field in the women's one-hour run, a bid on the 18.517km world record in that event, which includes Ethiopian-born double world champion Sifan Hassan.
Kosgei, who smashed the marathon world record with a stunning 2:14:04 run in Chicago last year, will be making her track debut.
Kenya's Faith Kipyegon will be aiming to set a new women's 1 000m world record at the Memorial Van Damme, a Wanda Diamond League meeting, in Brussels on 4 September.
The reigning Olympic 1 500m champion came up 0.17 shy of Svetlana Masterkova's 2:28.98 record at the Diamond League meeting in Monaco earlier this month, but will give it another try in the same stadium and meeting where the record was set in 1996.
Kipyegon's 2:29:15 performance in Monaco elevated the 26-year-old Kenyan to second of all-time over the distance.
Organisers also announced that fellow Kenyan Brigid Kosgei, the world record-holder in the marathon, has joined the field in the women's one-hour run, a bid on the 18.517km world record in that event, which includes Ethiopian-born double world champion Sifan Hassan.
Kosgei, who smashed the marathon world record with a stunning 2:14:04 run in Chicago last year, will be making her track debut.
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