- Faith Kipyegon will try to break the 3000m world record at the highly anticipated Silesia Kamila Skolimowska Memorial 2025 on Saturday, August 16.
- To achieve that feat, Kipyegon must improve her 3000m lifetime best of that she set in 2014 by more than 15 seconds.
- Kipyegon set a new 1500m world record of 3:48.68 earlier this month at the Prefontaine Classic.
The reigning 5000m World champion Faith Kipyegon will be seeking to smash the 3000m world record at the Silesia Diamond League 2025 set to take place on August 16.
Kipyegon heads to Poland with brilliant form that saw her lower the 1500m world record at the Prefontaine Classic earlier this month.
At the memorable Prefontaine Classic, Kipyegon produced a thrilling performance to improve her world record from 3:49.04 to 3:48.68.
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A few days before the event that was staged at the Hayward Stadium in Oregon, Kipyegon had unsuccessfully attempted to become the first woman to run a mile in less than four minutes at the Nike Breaking4 Project.
Although she crossed the finishing line at 4:06.42, Kipyegon’s performance inspired many people across the world.
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Faith Kipyegon chasing historic in Poland
Now, after those huge achievements, her focus shifts to the 3000m world record of 8:06.11 that was set in 1993 by retired Chinese runner Junxia Wang.
According to the Silesia Diamond League communications director, Marek Plawgo, Kipyegon has what it takes to break Wang’s world record.
“With this much success on her CV, breaking barriers remains the final goal of an athlete. I believe Faith is exactly at that stage now.
She is capable of more and she knows more, e.g. about Ingebrigtsen improving the 3000 meters world record in our stadium last year.
On the men’s side, just as on the women’s now, the record looked unbreakable. But nothing is forever. It looks like Faith is dreaming of proving it true,” he was quoted by the meeting’s website.
What Kipyegon needs to do to lower standing 3000m world record
For Kipyegon to break this monstrous world record, she will have to improve her personal best of 8:23.55 that she set in 2014 by more than 15 seconds.
Her compatriot Beatrice Chebet came closer to smashing the 3000m world earlier this year at the Rabat Diamond League 2025 where she crossed the finishing line at 8:11.56.
Besides Kipyegon, some of the other stars that have been confirmed for the event that is also known as the Kamila Skolimowska Memorial are Karsten Warholm and Femke Bol. Warholm and Bol hail from Norway and the Netherlands respectively.
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