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Multiple Olympics champion Faith Kipyegon has opened up on what has made her a record-breaking athlete in recent years having previously struggled to break the glass ceiling.
Faith Kipyegon has reiterated how motherhood has shaped her into a record-breaking athlete that is now not afraid to go beyond the limits.
Kipyegon says since delivering her daughter Alyn in 2018, she has become an extraordinary runner that has made history at the Olympics while setting world records because she knows that there is now someone looking up to her.
The 30-year-old admits there is now extra pressure not just from her daughter but from young girls and women around the world whom she inspires and she does not want to let them down by performing poorly.
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19:20 - 05.12.2024
Jamaican legend Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce agrees with Kenyan icon Faith Kipyegon on motherhood being 'a superpower'
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce agrees with Faith Kipyegon as she sends inspirational message to upcoming athletes on why motherhood should never hinder them from chasing glory.
“I am happy I have inspired many women not only in our country but around the world to know that everything is possible in life,” Kipyegon said on Citizen TV’s JKL.
“If you push yourself and dream of getting something, you will achieve no matter what.
“I am a testimony because since I gave birth to my daughter Alyn, I have been running super fast. I have been breaking records and still pushing myself to see the future because many young girls and women now look up to me now and say if Faith did it, will also do it. So, I am an inspiration to many.”
Indeed, Kipyegon has won gold at the 2022 and 2023 World Championships as well as the Tokyo 2020 and Paris 2024 Olympics while she set three world records in two months last year.
She started by breaking the 1,500m world record in Florence in June 2023 before lowering the 5,000m record in Paris a week later and the following month, she set a new one-mile mark in Monaco.
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The mother of one also broke her own world record in 1,500m by seven hundredths of a second, running 3:49.04 in Paris in July this year, just days before she went on to make history by winning a third straight Olympics gold medal, in a new Olympics record time of 3:51.29.
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18:08 - 05.12.2024
Faith Kipyegon reveals why she might not run another 1,500m race at Olympics
Multiple world and Olympics champion Faith Kipyegon has hinted at the possibility of abandoning her specialty, the 1,500m, in fovour of other races at the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.
As her daughter grows older, Kipyegon knows the demands for success will get more intense and she must be preparing to break more records in 2025, showing how motherhood, previously seen as hindrance, has now become a key ingredient for success.
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