Three weeks before the Olympic Games, two world athletics records fell in Paris on Sunday: the Ukrainian Yaroslava Mahuchikh cleared 2.10 m in the high jump while the Kenyan Faith Kipyegon completed the 1,500 m in 3 min 49 sec 04 on Sunday July 7.
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Three weeks before the Olympic Games, the Kenyan Faith Kipyegon completed the 1,500m in 3’49”04. In a near-full Charléty Stadium, the Diamond League meeting lived up to its promise of a major athletics competition with another women’s world record in the high jump by Ukrainian Yaroslava Mahuchikh (2.10m) and a French record in the 800m by Gabriel Tual (1’41”61).
After Mahuchikh, it was Kipyegon’s turn to make the 18,000 or so spectators in the stadium scream by improving her own world record by seven hundredths of a second. The 30-year-old Kenyan had seized the world record for the distance in June 2023. Paris is a success for her: a year ago, she set the world record for the 5,000m there, beaten by Ethiopian Gudaf Tsegay in September (14’00”21).
The double world champion and double Olympic champion in the discipline also reassures about her state of form after having been slowed down in her Olympic preparation due to a ” small muscle problem “.
” This world record is incredible and I am on the right track before the Games. “, Kipyegon said. I’ve come a long way with the injury, but I knew I was in world record shape.. »