The pacing lights - showing Genzebe Dibaba's world record of 3:50.07 from 2015 - were right up with her, but Kipyegon was determined that this would be her night. Laura Muir did her best to stay with Faith Kipyegon, but the Kenyan was all on her own with well over a lap to go. The double Olympic champion is now the world record holder.

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Faith Kipyegon on her quest to be the fastest 1500m runner.

Scroll down to find out what happened as it happened (all times local Central European Summer Time, UTC+2). That capped a fine night of athletics at the third Diamond League meeting of the year with Fred Kerley, Erriyon Knighton and Femke Bol also securing impressive wins. Those lights - showing Genzebe Dibaba's world record of 3:50.07 from 2015 - were right up with her, but Kipyegon kept on pushing hard.Īnd Kenya's double Olympic champion started pulling away from the lights on the home turn, running the final 400m in 58.81 to clock 3:49.11. The Kenyan was left all alone at the front with a third of the race to go with only the pacing lights on the inside of the track for company. Faith Kipyegon delivered a sensational performance to break the 1500m world record at the Golden Gala Diamond League meeting in Florence on Friday (2 June).

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