Faith Kipyegon on Why 2025 Was Still Not Best Season Despite Historic Feats

Faith Kipyegon enjoyed yet another successful season on track in 2025 when she remained unbeaten before capping it off with a fourth world title.

Kipyegon featured in five key races, three in the Diamond League, and won all of them. Along the way, she broke her own 1,500m world record, attempted to become the first woman to run a mile under four minutes, albeit unsuccessfully.

At the World Championships, she won silver in 5,000m and then capped it off with a fourth world title in her favourite race, the 1,500m, after which she added the Athlos title to her collection.

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That is a season many dream of but for Kipyegon, it did not come close to what she did two years prior.

“I still feel like 2023 was the most special year for me,” Kipyegon told Athletics Weekly when ranking her best-ever season since going international in 2010.

“Breaking three world records [1,500m, mile and 5,000m] and winning two gold medals [world 1,500m and 5,000m] in a championship was really amazing,” she added in reference to her 2023 campaign.

That season, Kipyegon shocked the world by breaking two world records in a week. What is more, they were in different disciplines.

She started by lowering the 1,500m world record, her first-ever, when she ran 3:49.11 in Florence, Italy, in June to become the first woman in history to break the 3:50-barrier in the discipline.

Kipyegon has since broken that record twice, first in Paris, when she ran 3:49.04 in July 2024, and in Eugene this year for the current mark of 3:48.68.

After her heroics in Florence, Kipyegon set a second record a week later, running 14:05.20 in the mile, while breaking Letesenbet Gidey’s mark of 14:06.62.

In Monaco over a month later, Kipyegon ran 4:07.64 in the mile, breaking Sifan Hassan's world record of 4:12.33, which had stood since 2019.

She would head to the 2023 World Championships in Budapest, Hungary where she won a double, winning gold in 5,000m and 1,500m.