{"id":22725,"date":"2021-08-06T20:03:55","date_gmt":"2021-08-06T14:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=133790"},"modified":"2021-08-06T20:03:55","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T14:33:55","slug":"faith-kipyegon-breaks-olympic-record-in-the-womens-1500m-to-win-gold-for-kenya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/olympics\/faith-kipyegon-breaks-olympic-record-in-the-womens-1500m-to-win-gold-for-kenya\/","title":{"rendered":"Faith Kipyegon breaks Olympic record in the women\u2019s 1500m to win gold for Kenya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Faith Kipyegon was considered one of the favourites to win the Olympic gold after she runs in the last 2016 Summer Olympics where she clocked 4:08:92 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The Kenyan has successfully defended her gold in Tokyo as well clocking in at an impressive 3:53:11 to break the Olympic record.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Faith Kipyegon of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/KEN?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#KEN<\/a> takes <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/gold?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#gold<\/a> in the women\u2019s 1500m final, defends her title and smashes the OR!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WorldAthletics?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@WorldAthletics<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/StrongerTogether?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#StrongerTogether<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Tokyo2020?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Tokyo2020<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Athletics?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Athletics<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/O7pdAkHhZs\">pic.twitter.com\/O7pdAkHhZs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Olympic Games (@Olympics) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Olympics\/status\/1423631232169021446?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 6, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Following Faith in second place to win silver was Laura Muir of Great Britain who clocked in at 3:54:50 and setting a new national record in the women\u2019s 1500m. Laura had competed in the same event last Olympics as well finishing in 12th place in Rio. The 28-year-old has fought her way through <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">nearly a decade long quest for a major medal that has finally come to an end.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The race of her life.<\/p>\n<p>Stunning run from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lauramuiruns?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@lauramuiruns<\/a> to win silver in the 1500m with a British Record!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TeamGB?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TeamGB<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/O5LD23M4IB\">pic.twitter.com\/O5LD23M4IB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Team GB (@TeamGB) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TeamGB\/status\/1423631784697237510?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 6, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI\u2019ve worked so hard for so long,\u201d she told BBC Sport.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI\u2019ve been fourth, fifth twice, sixth and seventh every year since 2015 and with everything, last year being postponed and not knowing what was going on.\u00a0 I got a silver!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sifan Hassan for the Netherlands was one of the favourites to win gold along with the Kenyan <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Faith Kipyegon. She ended put coming in third place. Hassan has been exceeding expectations thought the year turning out the be an athlete that is feared by many in long-distance events. Earlier this year she had broken the world record for the 10,000m race by over 10 seconds. Her record was soon broken after two days by Letesenbet Gidey.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 1500m women\u2019s race has seen an Olympic record and a British National record been broken in first and second place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":437,"featured_media":42911,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1233,1891,1713,1990,2393,2078],"class_list":["post-22725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-olympics","tag-netherlands","tag-olympic","tag-sprinter","tag-team-great-britain","tag-tokyo-2020-olympics","tag-world-atheltics"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/437"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}