Second world record for Kipyegon in one week

Two world records lit up the sky of Paris, in the fourth scale of the Diamond League. In order of appearance on the track, not seniority on the tables, the women's 5,000 meters and the men's 3,000-meter hurdles. A third, that of Jakob Ingebrigtsen in the two miles (7:54.10) shines less because it is not an Olympic distance and it is hardly practiced.

A week after beating, in Florence, the universal primate of the 1,500m, Faith Kipyegon, thrown without brakes, unleashed without bridles, left behind the 14:06.62 of the Ethiopian Letesenbet Gidey, achieved in Valencia in 2020, to record 14: 05.20. The Kenyan, double Olympic and world champion of 1,500, is in a state of grace running on paths of glory.

She had a fight with Gidey without interference from the other athletes. Gidey tugged, trying to take it down or tire it enough to dull its edge.. didn't get it. Even, impatient, exultant, Kipyegon overtook her without waiting for the final stretch. And already in those last meters, he widened the gap to finish in the radiant 14:05.20. Gidey was not bad at all. But his 14:07.94 were far from his executor.

And then came Lamecha Girma. Unbridled, he applied himself to the task of destroying the record of the Kenyan-Qatari Saïf Saaeed Shaheen of 7:53.63, petrified in the lists since 2004. The Ethiopian, world record holder of 3,000 on the indoor track, flew in absolute and remote solitude. You had to open the plane a lot on television to see where the rest of the squad was. The passing times supported him. And he finished with 7:52.11. And while we are at it, Dani Arce, third with 8:10.63, and Víctor Ruiz, seventh with 8:13.89, achieved the minimum for the World Cup in Budapest.