{"id":12136,"date":"2025-05-15T19:50:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T19:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/?p=12136"},"modified":"2025-05-16T21:57:52","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T21:57:52","slug":"world-record-breaker-chebet-returns-to-eugene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/world-record-breaker-chebet-returns-to-eugene\/","title":{"rendered":"World record breakers Chebet and Tsegay return to Eugene"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Beatrice Chebet and Gudaf Tsegay are set to return to the Prefontaine Classic for a star-studded 5000m in July, having both broken world records at the Eugene Wanda Diamond League meeting in recent years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ethiopia&#8217;s Tsegay set the current 5000m world record of 14:00.21 at the Wanda Diamond League Final in Eugene in 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kenyan star Chebet clocked 28:54.14 in a non-Diamond League ten-kilometre race in Eugene last season, joining the growing list of athletes who have broken a world record at a Diamond League meeting in recent years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She went on to claim gold in both the 10,000m and 5000m at the Olympic Games in Paris before regaining her 5000m Wanda Diamond League title in Brussels in September.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chebet kickstarted her title defence with victory in Xiamen last month, and is also confirmed to race in Rabat next weekend. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She and Tsegay will face another test in Eugene, as the top-four ranked 5000m runners in the world come together at Hayward Field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chebet will face Ethiopian rivals Medina Eisa, Ejgayehu Taye and Tsigie Gebreselama in what will be another crucial milestone on the Road to the Final in 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>About the Wanda Diamond League<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The Wanda Diamond League is the elite one-day meeting series in global athletics. 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