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She is one of the superstars of world athletics, and the most successful woman in the history of the 1500m with her two Olympic gold medals and two World titles. The Golden Gala Pietro Mennea can boast Kenyan Faith Kipyegon among the protagonists, one of the most awaited athletes of the extraordinary evening of Friday June 2nd in Florence, for the third leg of the Wanda Diamond League, the first of the year in Europe. The reigning Olympic and world champion came close to breaking the world record last season: with 3:50.37 last August in Monaco she became the second woman in the 1500m all-time list, just thirty hundredths of a second from the Ethiopian Genzebe Dibaba’s world record, set at the Herculis Meeting in 2015 (3:50.07). Kipyegon will come back on the track of the Ridolfi Stadium in Florence after two years: she raced in 2021 with Sifan Hassan and was second in an exciting final sprint. Precisely on that occasion the Dutchwoman Hassan set the meeting record at 3:53.63.
In the history of middle distance there is already a special place for Faith Kipyegon, 29, mother of Alyn, born in 2018 between her first victory at the Rio Olympics and her second triumph at Tokyo Games. Only the Russian Tatyana Kazankina and, for men, Sebastian Coe, had managed to repeat the Olympic gold medal in the 1500m, before her. For Kipyegon there is also the joy of the two gold medals at the World Athletics Championships in London 2017 and Eugene 2022, the silver medals in Beijing 2015 and Doha 2019, and the three Diamond League Trophies including the last two finals in Zurich. In the Diamond League she has achieved a total of 18 victories, a tally that she can try to increase in the Doha stage on 5 May and then at the Golden Gala, where she has not won yet: she also participated ten years ago, in 2013, in the Stadio Olimpico of Rome, when she was only nineteen and had recently celebrated her second world U20 gold medal in cross country. Since then, she has grown up to glory, today with the Budapest 2023 World Athletics Championships in her sights and the goal of the third title, never achieved by any woman in 1500m.
