Kipyegon to headline 3000m race in Monaco Diamong League in July
Gold medallist Kenya's Faith Kipyegon celebrates after competing in the women's 1500m final of the athletics event at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at Stade de France in Saint-Denis, north of Paris, on August 10, 2024. (Photo by Jewel SAMAD / AFP)
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Three-time Olympic champion Faith Kipyegon has been
confirmed to headline the women's 3000m race at the Herculis EBS Monaco meeting on
July 10, 2026.
The middle-distance wizard will be marking her return to the
Stade Louis-II, three years after she broke the mile world record there in
2023.
The four-lap triumph was one of three world records she
broke during the 2023 Diamond League season, a season she previously called her
best ever.
It was also one of five world records she has set at Diamond
League meetings in the past three years.
Her most recent world record came in the 1500m race last
year at the Prefontaine Classic in Eugene in July, where she destroyed a
star-studded field to clock 3:48.68, lowering her previous best set in Florence
in 2024 by 0.36 seconds.
Kipyegon set the Diamond League record over 3000 m in Silesia
last season, falling less than a second short of Wang Junxia’s 32-year-old
world record.
The 1500 m and mile world record holder has another chance to
make history over three kilometers in Monaco, aiming to break a world record in
four consecutive years at a Diamond League Meeting.
The Monaco meeting will be the tenth leg of the 2026 Wanda
Diamond League, which begins in Doha on May 8, with finals slated for September
4-5, 2026, in Brussels.
She already kicked off her 2026 season with a win in her 10 km road race debut.
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