Faith Kipyegon

Faith Kipyegon is a Kenyan track athlete known principally for the 1500 metres. She has won three consecutive Olympic titles in the event, earned five World Championships gold medals across the 1500m and 5000m, and holds the ratified women’s 1500m world record of 3:48.68.

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About Faith Kipyegon

Profile information current to 2026-08-19.

Kenya · Track athlete, Middle-distance runner

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Known for: Women’s 1500 metres; Women’s 5000 metres; Olympic and World Championships competition
Country: Kenya

Track athlete
Middle-distance runner

At a glance

Kipyegon won three consecutive Olympic women’s 1500m titles at Rio 2016, Tokyo 2020 and Paris 2024.
By the end of the 2025 World Championships, she had won four world titles in the 1500m and one in the 5000m.
Her 3:48.68 performance in Eugene on 5 July 2025 was ratified as the women’s 1500m world record.
At the 2023 World Championships in Budapest, she completed the women’s 1500m-5000m gold-medal double.

Athletic profile

Born in Kenya on 10 January 1994, Kipyegon competes in track athletics and is most closely associated with the women’s 1500 metres. Her major championship record also extends to the 5000 metres, in which she has won World Championships gold and Olympic silver.

Olympic record

Kipyegon won the Olympic women’s 1500m title at Rio 2016, Tokyo 2020 and Paris 2024. Her third consecutive victory came in Paris on 10 August 2024, when she ran an Olympic record of 3:51.29. She also earned silver in the Paris women’s 5000m, recording 14:29.60.

World titles and record performances

Kipyegon won her first senior world 1500m title in London in 2017 and completed a 1500m-5000m double at the 2023 World Championships in Budapest. She secured her fourth world 1500m title in Tokyo in 2025, bringing her World Championships gold-medal total to five. Earlier that year, she ran 3:48.68 in Eugene, a performance subsequently ratified as the women’s 1500m world record.

Timeline

1994-01-10 Born in Kenya.
2017-08 Won the women’s 1500m at the World Championships in London, her first senior world title in the event.
2023-08 Completed the women’s 1500m-5000m gold-medal double at the World Championships in Budapest.
2024-08-10 Won a third consecutive Olympic 1500m gold medal and set an Olympic record of 3:51.29.
2025-07-05 Ran 3:48.68 in Eugene, later ratified as the women’s 1500m world record.
2025-09-16 Won her fourth World Championships 1500m title in Tokyo, recording 3:52.15.

Additional verified details

Current context

World Athletics ranked Kipyegon seventh in the women’s 1500m ranking. World Athletics rankings are regularly updated and should be rechecked before publication.
World Athletics ranked Kipyegon first in the women’s 5000m ranking. World Athletics rankings are regularly updated and should be rechecked before publication.
The official women’s 1500m world record was listed as Kipyegon’s 3:48.68, set in Eugene on 5 July 2025. World-record status is time-sensitive and should be verified against World Athletics immediately before publication.

Biographical facts

Faith Kipyegon is a Kenyan athlete born on 10 January 1994.
Kipyegon won three consecutive Olympic women’s 1500m titles: Rio 2016, Tokyo 2020 and Paris 2024.
Kipyegon won the Olympic silver medal in the women’s 5000m at Paris 2024, recording 14:29.60.
By the end of the 2025 World Championships, Kipyegon had won five World Championships gold medals: four in the 1500m and one in the 5000m.
At the 2023 World Championships in Budapest, Kipyegon won gold in both the women’s 1500m and 5000m.
World Athletics named Kipyegon its Women’s Track Athlete of the Year for 2023.