Faith Chepngetich Kipyegon is a Kenyan middle-distance runner and current Commonwealth Games 1500 m women"s champion having won the gold medal at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland with a time of 4 minutes 08.94 seconds.
Career
At the 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 competed in the World Championships in Athletics and Came in 5th place in the final with a time of 4:05.08. A couple of months after she competed at the World Youth Championships in the women"s 1500 m winning the gold medal ahead of three Ethopian runners with a time of 4:09.48.
She qualified for the Summer Olympics in the women"s 1500 m, in London, but failed to qualify for the finals.
In August, at the World Championships in Moscow, Faith Kipyegon came in fifth in the final of the women"s 1500 m"s in a time of 4:05.08. The Kenya team, ahead of the United States and Australia, improved the World Record time to 16:33.58.
Achievements
She won the gold medal at the World Youth Championships in Athletics, and a gold medal the next year at the World Junior Championships in Athletics. She won the women"s junior race in the World Cross Country Championships in Faith Kipyegon first got noticed to the eye of the public back in early 2010 at the age of 16 when she 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 But then came back the next year, in and won the gold medal in the junior race with her team and individually.
At the age of seventeen She Participated at the World Cross Country Championships in Punta Umbria and won the gold medal in the junior race with her team and individually.
In the 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. At the beginning of the season, Faith Kipyegon won the junior race individual at the World Cross Country Championships in Bydgoszcz Poland.
On May 10, at the Qatar Athletic Super Grand Prix in Doha, she established a new Kenyan Record in the womes 1500 m"s in a Time of 3:56.98, facing the Swedish runner Abeba Aregawi. In, she won the gold medal in the 4 × 1500 m Relay at the first IAAF World Relays in Nassau, Bahamas, along with Mercy Cherono, Irene Jelagat and Hellen Obiri.
She also won the gold medal at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland.
On September 11,, at Diamond League finale in Brussels, Kipyegon won the mile in 4:16.71, beating Sifan Hassan in the final stretch who finished in 4:18.20.
