Kipyegon set to launch her Diamond League season in Paris

Kenya's middle-distance star Faith Kipyegon will launch her 2024 Wanda Diamond League campaign in the 1500m at the Meeting de Paris on Sunday 7 July. 

The world record-holder opened her season in Nairobi, at the Kenyan Olympic Trials as she won the 5000m (14:46.28) and 1500m (3:53.98) on back-to-back days, recording the fastest ever times at altitude for the two distances.

This is also a significant race at it is her last before heading for the Olympic Games in the same city. 

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Kipyegon is up against Kenya's Paris-bound Susan Ejore, two-time Diamond League champion and Olympic silver medalist, Kipyegon's closest competitor Laura Muir, Ethiopians Nigist Getachew and Hirut Meshesha, the African Games champion.

European champion Ciara Mageean from Northern Ireland and her compatriot Sarah Healy are also included.

When Kipyegon last competed on this track, she made history by breaking the world 5000m record. She went on to win the 1500m and 5000m double at the World Championships in Budapest, then wrapped up her 2023 campaign by racing at the World Road Running Championships in Riga on 1 October.

One year on from her record-breaking feats in Paris, Kipyegon will switch back to her main discipline, the 1500m, on Sunday.

Other Kenyans in action include Emmanuel Wanyonyi, Beatrice Chepkoech, Jackline Chepkoech and Abraham Kibiwott among others.

Action starts at 4:35 EAT with the women's high jump and the main two-hour broadcast window will begin at 6pm EAT with the men's 400m hurdles.