Faith Kipyegon's next race and World Record target revealed

World 1500m record-holder Faith Kipyegon will step up to the 3000m in Silesia on 16 August, organisers of the Wanda Diamond League meetings have announced.

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Kipyegon improved her own world 1500m mark to 3:48.68 in Eugene earlier this month becoming the first female athlete to run sub-3:49, just as she was the first to break 3:50 two years earlier.

This came barely a week after the world mile record-holder ran the fastest mile in history by a woman, clocking 4:06.42 at the Nike Breaking4 event in France in an unofficial and unratifiable exhibition event in June.

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Now she prepares to race the 3000m at the Silesia Kamila Skolimowska Memorial, a distance she last raced internationally on 13 May 2022, clocking 8:38.05 at the Doha Diamond League for second place.

The multiple world 1500m and 5000m gold medallist has a 3000m PB of 8:23.55 but that was set back in 2014 when she was just 20.

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Since then, she has claimed three Olympic 1500m titles and her 5000m PB of 14:05.20 was also a world record when she ran it in 2023.

As she lines up in Silesia, Kipyegon has set her sights on one of the sport’s most challenging marks: the women’s 3,000m world record, set by China’s Wang Junxia in 1993 with a time of 8:06.11.

Wang’s record has stood for nearly 32 years, but the 31-year-old is looking to challenge the controversial time, as Junxia comes from a generation of Chinese athletes once the subject of investigation for doping.