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Chebet, Kipyegon light up Diamond League
Hindustan Times Ranchi
|July 07, 2025
Beatrice Chebet shattered the women's 5,000m world record Saturday with a groundbreaking time of 13min 58.06sec as fellow Kenyan Faith Kipyegon lowered her own 1,500m global record at the Diamond League athletics meeting in Eugene, Oregon.
Chebet, Olympic gold medallist at 5,000 and 10,000m in Paris last year, delivered a devastating finish to become the first woman to break the 14-minute barrier in the 5,000.
The 25-year-old said she was inspired by her own strong showing in Rome last month, and by Kipyegon's ambitious but ultimately unsuccessful bid to become the first woman to break four minutes for the mile just over a week ago in Paris.
“In Rome I was just running to win a race, but after running 14:03, I said that'm capable of running a world record,” she said.
“When I was coming here to Eugene, I was coming to prepare toruna world record, and I said I have to try. I said ‘If Faith is trying, why notme?”
The leading group of Chebet, Ethiopian Gudaf Tsegay and Ken-
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