Faith Kipyegon

some of the listed material does not qualify as quotes (e.g., essays, prose or full dialogue transcripts) thumb| Faith Kipyegon during the 2017 World Championships in Athletics Faith Chepngetich Kipyegon (born 10 January 1994) is a Kenyan middle- and long-distance runner. Kipyegon is the world record holder for the 1500 metres and the mile, and she is the former world record holder for the 5000 metres. Kipyegon is the only three-time Olympic champion in the 1500 metres, having won a gold medal each at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro, 2020 Tokyo, and the 2024 Paris Olympics. She also won a gold medal in the 1500 metres at the 2017, 2022, 2023 and 2025 World Championships and in the 5000 metres at the 2023 World Championships. Quotes My focus is to defend my Olympic title in Tokyo...It was a really good race here (Kasarani Stadium near Nairobi), which I really wanted to win. I know I will meet many good athletes in Tokyo but I have prepared really well. ZK Goh, Olympic 1500m champ Faith Kipyegon targeting Tokyo 2020 gold after Kenyan trials win, Olympics, 17 June 2021. I wrote in my diary that 2023 will be a special year and it came true. I believed in myself more than I believed in myself years back, that is what changed. I've been working hard to achieve, especially the 1500m world record, which was missing from my trophies, because I have all the medals from World Championships and Olympics. In 2021 I tried [to break the 1500m world record] in Monaco. In 2022 I tried again but I didn't get it. But now I have it. I have been patient to get this historical milestone. For the other competitors to come and celebrate with me was the most emotional moment for me, because I think I was the first to be celebrated on track like that. It has never happened in athletics. "I was comfortable to run barefoot at the time, I didn't have shoes by then," Kipyegon, who won a total of five medals at World Junior Cross Country level. That put me in another level whereby I have to believe in myself - that everything in life goes step by step and at the end you will achieve what you want. I think it (becoming a mother) changed my mentality, because when you're a young girl you just enjoy the world and the money you've got," the world record holder explains. But if you have a baby, it opens your mind and it shows having a child doesn't mean the end of your career. And my daughter is inspired by me. I will advise them to be patient, When it comes to take care of your family you have to be there. When it comes to being in training camp, be in training. It's all about balancing both, believing in yourself and pushing yourself to the limit. It was a beautiful year with historical moments that's put me in another level, where I see myself as an inspiration to many. But I think it will come to our way. If it is not me, it’ll be someone else, We are not limited. We can limit ourselves through our thoughts, but I think we are supposed to try everything in our lives and prove to the world that we are strong and that we can push it. Faith Kipyegon: Kenyan runner on patience and self-belief in a record-breaking 2023 season, BBC Sport (December 30 2023) I was really looking forward to defending my title, and I had a dream. Amazing to me, I completed it. I'm so, so happy, I managed to make history. I've done it. During her Gold win in August 2024 I have achieved a lot, all the medals, the olympics and world championships, but i still have a drive, I still want to show that women are capable of doing what we have to do in this world, that we have got this and we need to do it. https://www.newvision.co.ug/category/sports/faith-kipyegon-supreme-kenyan-champion-and-ro-NV_218787_082026 I didn't know I would come out strong today, after what I went through over the 5,000," Kipyegon said. "I didn't sleep until yesterday." https://www.reuters.com/sports/olympics/athletics-kenyas-kipyegon-wins-gold-1500-metres-2024-08-10/ How I started athletics was like magic or something. I started when I was in primary school, back at home, where I used to do training in the school I used to play football, gymnastics. After that we got a teacher [who] introduced us to running. I started running and knowing that athletics might [get] me somewhere I have been performing for many years and getting the gold medals I want to do my best and motivate the young girls and young women to know that Faith has come a long way, and she’s still performing at the Olympic level and getting these medals, especially the gold medal. I won my first gold medal as a mum, after coming back from maternity leave. I was running with experience and at the same time [for] people back at home, especially my daughter. [Motherhood] changed me a lot, mentally. Many people benefited from that gold medal My village got electricity after that It’s the love of the sport. Wanting to inspire the young generation and the young girls around the world, that you can also take athletics as a profession. Going out there running early in the morning and going to camps, staying there, from Monday to Saturday Because we as athletes take what we have given by God [as] our talent. To inspire the young generation and upcoming athletes to know that if you take it seriously, it can put you on another level in the world. If you have that pain, it's success The dream is just to get that gold medal…bring that gold medal home If you are in training, and you don't feel pain, next thing you are going to a race, and you don’t perform good. But if you have that pain, it's a success. So, you feel pain today, I think it will be a successful tomorrow to achieve what you have been feeling pain [for]. I want to do this for my country. I want to do this for myself. I want to do this for the next young girl to know that if a young girl can win a gold medal, why not us I have been performing for many years and getting the gold medals Faith Kipyegon exclusive on her winning mentality at Paris 2024: "I want to do this for the next young girl" (10 August 2024) External links Category:Living people Category:Women from Kenya Category:1994 births Category:Women born in the 1990s Category:Sportspeople from Kenya Category:Track and field athletes