{"id":12971,"date":"2025-05-27T10:22:59","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T10:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/?p=12971"},"modified":"2025-05-27T10:23:01","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T10:23:01","slug":"omega-moment-of-the-meeting-chebet-becomes-second-fastest-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/omega-moment-of-the-meeting-chebet-becomes-second-fastest-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"OMEGA Moment of the Meeting: Chebet becomes second-fastest ever"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Just a month into the new Wanda Diamond League season, it is fair to say that Beatrice Chebet has picked up exactly where she left off in 2024. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Kenyan distance star conquered the world on multiple occasions last season, sweeping to Olympic gold medals in the 5000m and 10,000m, breaking the 10-kilometre world record at the Wanda Diamond League meeting in Eugene and securing her second Diamond Trophy at the series final in Brussels. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That form has continued into this season, with Chebet already the firm favourite to defend her Diamond League title in the women&#8217;s 5000m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After kicking off her campaign with a world lead in Xiamen, Chebet came to Rabat full of confidence and promising to attack her personal best in the 3000m. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As it turned out, she did much more than that, dominating a high-quality field at the Meeting International Mohammed VI to take her second win of the season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Wanda Diamond League&#8217;s Official Timekeeper OMEGA clocked the Kenyan at 8:11.56 as she crossed the finish line, making her the second-fastest woman of all time over three kilometres. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The time was also an African record and a Diamond League record, making it this week&#8217;s <strong>OMEGA Moment of the Meeting.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I am so so happy. I was not preparing a world record attempt. I just came to run my personal best and I<br>succeeded,&#8221; said Chebet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She insisted, however, that the 3000m world record &#8211; currently held by China&#8217;s Wang Junxia with 8:06.11 &#8211; was very much within her sights. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I just have to believe in myself and then maybe after some months or years, that world record will come. It is just a matter of time and I don\u00b4t want to rush things.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Watch: OMEGA Moment of the Meeting &#8211; Rabat 2025<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"lazyload smush-lazyload-video smush-lazyload-youtube\" style=\"--smush-video-aspect-ratio: 500\/281\" data-bg-image=\"url(https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php?action=smush_video_thumbnail&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fembed%2F-LdNOjl2O7w%3Ffeature%3Doembed&#038;video_width=500&#038;video_height=281)\" ><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Beatrice Chebet breaks AFRICAN and DIAMOND LEAGUE RECORD in Rabat 3000m - Wanda Diamond League 2025\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-LdNOjl2O7w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\"><\/iframe><span class=\"smush-play-btn\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Play video\">\r\n\t\t\t\t<span tabindex=\"0\" class=\"smush-play-btn-inner\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<span>Play<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beatrice Chebet set an OMEGA-clocked African and Diamond League record to become the...","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":12975,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1144],"tags":[1096,219,1212,6,875,84,348,624],"city":[1213],"class_list":["post-12971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rabat","tag-1096","tag-3000m","tag-beatrice-chebet","tag-diamond-league","tag-omega","tag-rabat","tag-record","tag-wanda","city-rabat"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12971"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12977,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12971\/revisions\/12977"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12971"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=12971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}