Faith Chepngetich Kipyegon

Faith Chepngetich Kipyegon

Faith Kipyegon at the 2012 World Junior Championships in Athletics
Personal information
Full name	Faith Chepngetich Kipyegon
Nationality	Kenyan
Born	(1994-01-10) 10 January 1994 (age 23) Bomet, Kenya
Residence	Iten, Kenya
Height	1.57 m (5 ft 2 in)
Weight	42 kg (93 lb)
Sport
Sport	Track and field
Event(s)	1500 metres
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)	1500 meters: 3:56.41 NR 3000 meters: 8:23.25 5000 meters: 14:31.95
Medal record Women's athletics Representing Kenya Olympic Games 2016 Rio de Janeiro 1500 m World Championships 2015 Beijing 1500 m World Relays 2014 Nassau 4x1500 m relay Commonwealth Games 2014 Glasgow 1500 m World Junior Championships 2012 Barcelona 1500 m World Youth Championships 2011 Lille 1500 m World Cross Country Championships 2011 Punta Umbria Junior Race 2013 Bydgoszcz Junior Race

Faith Chepngetich Kipyegon (born 10 January 1994) is a Kenyan middle-distance runner and the current Olympic champion in the 1500 m women's having won the Rio Olympics on 16 August 2016. She is also the Commonwealth champion having won the gold medal at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland with a time of 4 minutes 08.94 seconds. She won the gold medal at the 2011 World Youth Championships in Athletics, and a gold medal the next year at the 2012 World Junior Championships in Athletics. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she competed in the Women's 1500 metres, But got 9th in the 3rd heat and failed to qualify for the finals. She won the women's junior race in the World Cross Country Championships in 2013. She competed in the 2013 World Championships in Athletics and Came in 5th place in the final with a time of 4:05.08.

At 16, Faith Kipyegon ran in the 2010 World Cross Country Championships women's junior race and came in 5th place individually, but won the gold with her team. In 2011 she won the gold medal in the junior race both with her team and individually.

She participated in the 2011 World Cross Country Championships in Punta Umbria and won the gold medal in the junior race both with her team and individually. A few months afterward, she competed at the World Youth Championships in the women's 1500 m winning the gold medal ahead of three Ethiopian runners with a time of 4:09.48.

In the 2012 World Junior Championships in Barcelona, she won the gold medal way ahead of the field with a time of 4:04.96; the Serbian Amela Terzić and Ethiopian Teferi Senbere took 2nd and 3rd. She qualified for the 2012 Summer Olympics in the women's 1500 m, in London, but failed to qualify for the finals.