Faith Chepngetich Kipyegon is a middle-distance runner from Kenya who specializes in the 1500 meters.

She is the second woman in history to win back-to-back Olympic 1500m gold, having won in Rio in 2016 and Tokyo in 2020, with the latter setting a Games record.

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She was the eighth kid in a family of nine.

Beatrice Mutai, her elder sister and training partner, is a 10km and half-marathon expert.

Beatrice took bronze in Cameroon in the African Cross Country Championships.

She won silver in 2015 and gold in 2017 at the World Athletics Championships. Kipyegon won the silver medal in 2019 after returning from maternity leave the previous year. In 2022, she added gold. In July 2021, she set a new Kenyan record by running the fourth-fastest time in history.

At the age of 18, she failed to qualify for the semifinals of the 2012 London Olympics, although she did win the junior races in the 2011 and 2013 World Cross Country Championships and finished sixth at the 2013 World Championships.

She was the winner of the Diamond League in 2017 and 2021, as well as the Commonwealth Games in 2014.

Kipyegon was named one of the Top 100 Most Influential Africans in 2017 by New African magazine.