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Multiple world champion Faith Kipyegon will open her season at the Prefontaine Classic, where she will run the 5,000m, but there is little margin for error given what is at stake.
Two-time Olympic champion Faith Kipyegon will open her season at the Eugene Diamond League, popularly known as the Prefontaine Classic, but the event holds more significance for her as far as the Paris Olympics is concerned.
Kipyegon will be running the 5,000m in Eugene on May 24 where she is seeking to hit the Olympic qualifying standard even though she has not made up her mind on whether she will double at the Paris Games.
Kipyegon run a world record 14:05.20 in Paris, France in June last year but that was outside the Olympics qualification window which means she will have to do it all over again to be in contention for a place at the Paris Games over the 5,000m.
The Olympic qualifying window for individual events, other than the 10,000m and combined events, is from July 1, 2023 and June 30, 2024 and Kipyegon and Co will need to clock 14:52.00, which is the mark set for Paris Olympics qualification.
That will give the world 5,000m champion some extra pressure heading to Eugene but she will be counting on her experience to get her over the line.
Kipyegon had a wonderful 2023 season that saw her break three world records, starting with her specialty 1,500m in Florence, Italy last June before the 5,000m in Paris a week later.
She would lower the one-mile world record at the Monaco Diamond League in July before winning gold in 1,500m and 5,000m at the World Championships in Budapest, Hungary a month later.
Her 5,000m world record was, however, broken two months later by Ethiopia's Gudaf Tsegay who ran 14:00.21 at the Prefontaine Classic in September.
Eugene holds special memories for Kipyegon who won her second world title in 1,500m in the US city in 2022 as well as last season’s Diamond League Trophy over the distance.
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