Kenya's Faith Kipyegon successfully defended her gold medal in the women's 1,500 meters at the Tokyo Olympics with an Olympic record time of 3:53.11. With the victory, she becomes the first woman to win back-to-back Olympic gold medals since the Soviet Union's Tatyana Kazankina in 1976 and 1980.
Kipyegon won gold in 2016 and then gave birth to her first daughter in 2018. She returned to the global stage with a silver medal at the 2019 world championships and ran the fourth-fastest time in history with a 3:51.07 personal best at the Monaco Diamond League in July to head into Tokyo as the favorite.