Faith Chepngetich Kipyegon is a Kenyan professional middle-distance runner specializing in the 1500m event. She is widely regarded as the greatest women’s 1500-meter runner in history. Kipyegon had an extraordinary career, winning numerous championships and breaking multiple records.
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| Name: | Faith Chepgetich Kipyegon |
| age: | 29 years old |
| husband: | Timothy Kitum |
| date of birth: | January 10, 1994 |
| Country of Citizenship: | American |
| net worth: | $6 million |
Faith Kipyegon Biography
Faith Chepnetich Kipyegon (born 10 January 1994) is a Kenyan professional middle-distance runner, mainly competing in the 1500m. A two-time Olympic champion and two-time world champion, she is the only woman to win the 1500m world title four times and only the second woman to win back-to-back Olympic titles.
The Age of Faith Kipyegon
Kipyegon was born on January 10, 1994. As of 2023, his age is 29.
Faith Kipyegon Height and Weight
Faith Kipyegon is 5.2 feet tall and weighs 42 kg.
Faith Kipyegon Parents and Siblings
Faith Kipyegon was the eighth of nine children who grew up on a farm in Ndabibit village near Keringet, Nakuru County, Kenya’s Great Rift Valley. She is from the Kalenjin tribe. Her sister and former training partner, Beatrice Mutai, is a 10K half marathon specialist. Her father, Samuel Kipyegon Koech, was a 400m and 800m runner in his youth, while her mother, Linah Koech, was also involved in track and field. Faith was a soccer player until she started athletics at school at age 14. She lined up for a 1K race in gym class and won that race by 20 meters. She attended Winners Girls High School in Keringet.
Faith Kipyegon Careers
On the field, Kipyegon has won or finished runner-up in all Grand Slam events since 2015 and is known as the greatest women’s 1,500-meter runner in history. She is the world record holder in the distance and 5000 meters and the African record holder in the 1000 meters. Her time of 3:49.11 in the 1500 meters in Florence on June 2, 2023 became the first and only woman in history to break the 3:50 barrier in the event. Just seven days later, Kipyegon also set a world record in the 5,000 meters in Paris.
She was an Olympic champion at Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020, and a world champion at the 2017 and 2022 World Athletics Championships. Kipyegon won world silver in 2015, when she lost only to multiple world record holder Genzebe Dibaba, and in 2019 she returned after giving birth the previous year. Kipyegon holds two of the three fastest women’s 1500m times in history (3/6, 7/14) and is one of only five in the athletics majors (U18, U20 and Senior) to create a senior world record.
Kipyegon won her professional titles at the 2011 World U18 and 2012 World U20 Championships. At 18, she didn’t reach the semifinals at the London 2012 Olympics, but was junior champion at the 2011 and 2013 World Cross Country Championships and fifth at the 2013 World Championships. She is also the 2014 Commonwealth Games champion and three-time Diamond League champion.
In 2017, Kipyegon was named one of the 100 most influential Africans by New Africa magazine.
Kipyegon set two world records in one week after breaking the 5000m world standard of 14:06.62 set by Letesenbet Gidey in 2001, exactly seven days later on June 9. The third distance since 2015. In a thrilling duel with Letesenbet in the Paris Diamond League, she broke her old PB (14:31.95) and shaved 1.42 seconds off the world record with a time of 14:05.20. She passed her in the 600m, but Letesenbet was close behind, both about 6 seconds behind the world record pace. Kipyegon ran the final lap in 60.6 seconds and beat Letesenbet in the final 200-meter sprint with a time of 28.1 seconds, even faster than her time in the 1,500-meter world-record race. She became the second woman in history to hold both the 1500m and 5000m records, after Paola Pigni in 1969, and the first Kenyan woman to hold the latter.
Faith Kipyegon Husband
Kipyegon is married to middle-distance runner Timothy Kitum, a 2012 Olympic bronze medalist in the 800m. They have a daughter, Alyn, who was born in June 2018.
She has been training at Kaptagat (and Kapsabet) since late 2017, with Patrick Sang, three-time global 3000m steeplechase silver medalist and coach of marathon world record holder Eliud Kipchoge.
Faith Kipyegon Net Worth
Faith Kipyegon has an estimated net worth of over $6 million.
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