(Source: World Athletics)
World 1500m record-holder Faith Kipyegon will step up to the 3000m in Silesia, while Olympic marathon champion Sifan Hassan will drop down to the mile in London, organisers of the Wanda Diamond League meetings have announced.
Kenya’s Kipyegon improved her own world 1500m record to 3:48.68 in Eugene earlier this month and the world mile record-holder ran the fastest mile in history by a woman in an unofficial and unratifiable exhibition event in Paris in June. Now she prepares to race the 3000m at the Silesia Kamila Skolimowska Memorial on 16 August.
The multiple world 1500m and 5000m gold medallist has a 3000m PB of 8:23.55 but that was set back in 2014 when Kipyegon was just 20. Since then, she has claimed three Olympic 1500m titles and her 5000m PB of 14:05.20 was also a world record when she ran it in 2023.
Also announced for Silesia are Femke Bol and Karsten Warholm in the 400m hurdles, Ethan Katzberg and Camryn Rogers in the hammer, Neeraj Chopra and Arshad Nadeem in the javelin, Julien Alfred in the 100m and Grant Holloway in the 110m hurdles.
While Hassan is now an Olympic gold medallist in the 5000m, 10,000m and marathon, she is also a former world record-holder in the mile and it is that shorter distance she will contest at the London Athletics Meet on 19 July.
The Dutch star has secured success in London in the past, taking victory on her marathon debut in 2023 before finishing third in the 2025 event. She last competed on the track in the London Athletics Meet in 2023, finishing third in the 5000m in a European record of 14:13.42.
“I’ve learned so much about myself racing in London, both on the road and the track, and I’m excited to return and to compete again at the Olympic stadium,” said Hassan, whose 4:12.33 mile time from Monaco in 2019 remains the European record.
“Last year my curiosity pushed me to take a risk and compete in three distances at the Paris Games. I know I’m probably a bit crazy to mix it up so much, but I like the combination of track and road and I want to see what is possible,” added the 32-year-old, who claimed Olympic 5000m and 10,000m bronze as well as marathon gold last year. “Now that the London Marathon is over, I will be returning to shorter distances for the track season. I enjoy these different races, tactics and distances, and I am looking forward to seeing what I can do in the Diamond League mile in London.”
