Faith Kipyegon will be aiming for a second gold medal of the week when she lines up in the women's 5000m at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest this Saturday evening.
The Kenyan star claimed gold in the 1500m on Wednesday, adding a third world title to her growing list of global gongs over the distance. She is yet to win any Olympic or world golds over 5000m, but the 29-year-old will still rank among the favourites on Saturday after her historic exploits in the Wanda Diamond League this season.
In June and July, Kipyegon became the first athlete in Diamond League history to break a world record in multiple disciplines, and the first to break more than one world record in a single season.
While her 1500m world record of 3:49.11 in Florence had been some time coming, her 5000m record in Paris came completely out of the blue, with Kipyegon even admitting that she was tired before she clocked 14:05.20 at the Stade Charlety.
A month later in Monaco, she completed her hat-trick of world records with 4:07.64 in the mile, breaking the previous record which Sifan Hassan had set at the same Diamond League meeting four years earlier.
Watch all three of Faith Kipyegon's Wanda Diamond League world records below.
