{"id":845098,"date":"2025-05-01T21:12:23","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T02:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/01\/kenya-olympic-legend-kipyegon-nominated-for-laureus-sports-award\/"},"modified":"2025-05-01T21:12:23","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T02:12:23","slug":"kenya-olympic-legend-kipyegon-nominated-for-laureus-sports-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/01\/kenya-olympic-legend-kipyegon-nominated-for-laureus-sports-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Olympic Legend Kipyegon Nominated for Laureus Sports Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p data-para-word-count=\"20\">NAIROBI \u2014 <em>Triple Olympic champion Faith Kipyegon is among elite athletes who have been nominated for this year&#8217;s Laureus World Sports Award.<\/em><\/p>\n<p data-para-word-count=\"34\">Kipyegon is up for the World Sportswoman of the Year award following a stellar season in which she made history as the first female athlete to win three consecutive Olympic titles in the 1500m.<\/p>\n<p data-para-word-count=\"30\">The 31-year-old clocked 3:51.29 to clinch her third crown at last year&#8217;s summer games in Paris, following on from her previous triumphs in Rio de Janeiro (2016) and Tokyo (2021).<\/p>\n<p data-para-word-count=\"29\">The feat came less than a month after she had set the same city alight by smashing her own world record by clocking 3:49.04 at the Paris Diamond League.<\/p>\n<p data-para-word-count=\"25\">It came a year after she had claimed her third world title in the three-and-a-quarter-lap race in Budapest, where she timed 3:54.87 for the win.<\/p>\n<p data-para-word-count=\"45\">Others contesting the same award include seven-time Olympic gymnast champion Simone Biles (United States), Olympic marathon champion Sifan Hassan (the Netherlands), four-time Olympic champion Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone (United States), tennis superstar Aryanna Sabalenka (Belarus) and Spanish footballer Aitana Bonmati &#8211; who won the award last year.<\/p>\n<p data-para-word-count=\"20\">Should she clinch it, Kipyegon will become the second ever Kenyan to win the award since Vivian Cheruiyot in 2012.<\/p>\n<p data-para-word-count=\"10\">The awards ceremony are set for April 21 in Madrid.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> Dion Pepper <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503030424.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI \u2014 Triple Olympic champion Faith Kipyegon is among elite athletes who have been nominated for this year&#8217;s Laureus World Sports Award. Kipyegon is up for the World Sportswoman of the Year award following a stellar season in which she made history as the first female athlete to win three consecutive Olympic titles in the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":845099,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2020,32205],"tags":[13027,6618],"class_list":{"0":"post-845098","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kenya","8":"category-olympic","9":"tag-kenya","10":"tag-olympic"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=845098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/845099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=845098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=845098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=845098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}