Faith Chepngetich Kipyegon is a Kenyan middle-distance runner specializing in the 1500 meters. A 2016 Rio Olympic and 2020 Tokyo Olympic champion with the Games record at the latter, she is the second woman in history to claim back-to-back Olympic 1500m titles.
She was the eighth born in a family of nine children. Her elder sister and training partner, Beatrice Mutai, is a 10km and half-marathon specialist. Beatrice won bronze during the African Cross Country Championships in Cameroon.
Does Faith Kipyegon have a child?
Kipyegon is married to middle-distance runner Timothy Kitum, the 2012 Olympic 800m bronze medalist. They have a daughter, Alyn, born in June 2018. There is not much news about her daughter.
In June 2019, she competed in her first race since giving birth, winning the Diamond League’s Prefontaine Classic in Palo Alto. At age 16, Faith Kipyegon ran in the 2010 World Cross Country Championships women’s junior race in Bydgoszcz, Poland. She came in fourth place individually and won the gold medal with her under-20 team.