On a historic night with two world records and one world best, it is almost impossible to single out one performance.<\/p>\n
Jakob Ingebrigtsen got the party started in Paris with his fabulous 7:54.10 in the men’s two miles, and Lamecha Girma wrapped it up with a staggering world record of 7:52.11 in the men’s 3000m steeplechase.<\/p>\n
But once again, it was Faith Kipyegon who stood out on a historic night where standout performances were ten a penny, delivering the OMEGA Moment of the Meeting <\/strong>for the second week in a row.<\/p>\n Just a week after her 1500m world record in Florence, the Kenyan had come to Paris on a high, but without expectation that she would make history for the second time in a week. <\/p>\n Yet as she entered the final lap of a gruelling battle with then world record holder Letesenbet Gidey, it was clear that Kipyegon had a chance to do something very special.<\/p>\n The crowd at the Stade Charl\u00e9ty were on their feet as she streaked away from both Gidey and the green wavelight to come home in 14:05.20, taking Gidey’s world record and becoming the first ever athlete in Diamond League history to break the world record in two different disciplines.<\/p>\n “I do not know how I made it. I just focused on the green light and tried to stay relaxed and enjoy the race. When I saw that it was a world record, I was so surprised,” she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Faith Kipyegon broke a world record for the second time in a week when she cruised to victory in...","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3025,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[6,629,203,875,192,624,180],"city":[],"class_list":["post-3024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-diamond-league","tag-kenya","tag-kipyegon","tag-omega","tag-paris","tag-wanda","tag-world-record"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3024","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"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3024"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=3024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}