by Beatrice Chebet destroyed the 5,000m world record of women with a groundbreaking time of 13 minutes of 58.06 seconds when the Kenyan Kopyegon Kenyer lowered her own 1,500 -m world record at the Diamond League Athletics in Eugene, Oregon.
Chebet, the Olympic gold medalist with 5,000 and 10,000 m in Paris last year, provided a devastating finish to be the first woman to break the 14-minute barrier in the 5,000.
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The 25-year-old said that last month she was of her own strong representation in Rome and Kipyegon’s ambitious but ultimately unsuccessful offer to become the first woman to broke four minutes for the mile in Paris a little more than a week ago.
“I just ran in Rome to win a race, but after I ran 14:03, I said that I was able to keep a world record,” she said.
“When I came here to Eugene, I came to prepare for a world record, and I said I have to try. I said ‘If the belief is trying, why not me?'”
The leading group of Chebet, Ethiopian Gudaf Tsegay and Kenyer Agnes Jebet Ngetich had fallen with several remaining rounds of world record pace, but Chebet gathered a last mighty kick in the last round.
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Jebet NGetich became second and Tsegay in 14: 01.29, which set up the previous world record from 14: 00.21 on the same Hayward field route in September 2023 – was third in 14:0411.
Kipyegon, the triple incumbent Olympic champion, won the 1,500 m in 3: 48.68 and improved in the record of 3: 49.04, which she left in July 2024.
The 31-year-old Kenyan headed her first 1,500 m of the season after she was neglected for Mile history in a special event in Paris.
The Diribe Welteji in Ethiopia was second in 3: 51.44 and overtook the Olympic silver medalist of the Australia, Jessica Hull, who had glued to Kipyegon until the last round, but settled in third place in 3: 52.67.
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– Thompson triumphs in 100 m – –
After the world championships aimed at Tokyo on September 13th and 21st in Tokyo, Jamaica Kishane Thompson and the American Melissa Jefferson-Woodden continued their outstanding sprint campaigns with 100 m victories.
The Olympic silver medalist Thompson raged 9.85 seconds to win over 100 m of the men, and confidently followed his shiny 9.75 seconds with the Jamaican national exams, which made him the sixth fastest man of all time in the distance.
Thompson overtook the Great Britain’s Zharnel Hughes (9.91) and the American Trayvon Bromell (9.94) slightly exceeded and said that the race was another learning experience when he was preparing for an expected world championship title against the American Noah Lyles-the one with only 0.005 seconds for Olympic gold in Paris.
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“I’m the only one who can stop me,” said Thompson. “I’m not saying that, but to be honest. As soon as I am better, amazing things will happen.”
Jefferson-Woodden exceeded the Olympic gold medalist Julien Alfred in the 100 m women and held the Saint Lucia star to win in 10.75 seconds-outside of her season leader 10.73 set at the Philadelphia Grand Slam Track event.
Alfred became second in 10.77 and Ivorian Marie-Josee Ta Lou in 10.90.
The American Sha’carri Richardson, who revealed this week that an injury in February slowed down her season, became the ninth and in 11.19 seconds.
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The two -time Olympic champion Armand “Mondo” Duplantis of Sweden won the pole vault with a jump of 6.00 m.
Duplantis took the Americans Sam Kendricks and Austin Miller conveniently in front of the Americans.
In addition to records, there were a number of leading performances worldwide.
The increasing Ethiopian talent Biniam Mehary, 18, won the 10,000 m in 26: 43.82. The Olympic champion of Botswana won 19.76 seconds and Bahrain’s Olympic champion, Winfred Yavi, threatened the world record on the way to a global 8: 45.25 in the 3,000 m obstacle.
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Rudy Winkler set an American record to win the hammer with a throw of 83.16 million. The American Joe Kovacs won the start with a Thow of 22.48 and the Olympic long jump-up gold medalist Tara Davis-Woodhall with a jump of 7.07 m.
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