Faith Kipyegon claimed her fifth Diamond League title, and with her compatriot Beatrice Chebet, broke the meeting records in their events on the second day of the Wanda Diamond League Final in Brussels on Saturday.
Olympic 5000m and 10,000m champion Beatrice Chebet set a world-leading 14:09.52 meeting record at the 2024 Weltklasse Zurich, the penultimate Wanda Diamond League event of the season.
World records set in the first half of 2024 by Faith Kipyegon, Beatrice Chebet, Agnes Jebet Ngetich, Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, Mondo Duplantis, Mykolas Alekna have now been ratified by World Athletics.
Burundi’s Rodrigue Kwizera and Kenya’s Beatrice Chebet led the 2023-2024 World Athletics Cross Country Tour honours list.
Kenya’s Beatrice Chebet breaks the women’s world 5km record with 14:13 at the Cursa dels Nassos road race in Barcelona.
Rhonex Kipruto and Beatrice Chebet earned Kenya two gold medals on the opening day of competition at the 2018 IAAF World U20 Championships in Tampere, Finland on Tuesday.