{"id":35157,"date":"2023-06-13T18:17:40","date_gmt":"2023-06-13T18:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=35157"},"modified":"2023-06-13T18:17:57","modified_gmt":"2023-06-13T18:17:57","slug":"kenya-rewards-kipyegon-with-35000-and-house-for-breaking-2-world-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2023\/06\/13\/kenya-rewards-kipyegon-with-35000-and-house-for-breaking-2-world-records\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya rewards Kipyegon with $35,000 and house for breaking 2 world records"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Distance runner Faith Kipyegon was given $35,000 and a house by Kenyan President William Ruto on Tuesday as a reward for breaking two world records in the space of a week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/pub\/2023\/06\/faith-kipyegon2.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-35160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/pub\/2023\/06\/faith-kipyegon2.webp 1000w, https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/pub\/2023\/06\/faith-kipyegon2-300x200.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/pub\/2023\/06\/faith-kipyegon2-768x512.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/pub\/2023\/06\/faith-kipyegon2-750x500.webp 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kipyegon, who met with Ruto at the president\u2019s office, said she would now fulfill a promise she had made to buy her father a new car.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 29-year-old Kipyegon, a two-time Olympic champion in the 1,500 meters, set a new 1,500 world record in Florence, Italy on June 2 when she broke the eight-year-old mark set by Genzebe Dibaba of Ethiopia. Kipyegon became the first woman to go under 3 minutes, 50 seconds with her 3:49.11.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She broke the 5,000 meters record last Friday at the Paris Diamond League meet by clocking 14:05.20, winning that race ahead of former world record-holder Letesenbet Gidey of Ethiopia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cFaith has made Kenya incredibly proud,\u201d Ruto said. \u201cShe stands as a shining model of consistency, discipline, hard work, as well as family. Faith is a great Kenyan woman \u2014 a mother, a wife and a world champion rolled into one.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ruto pledged that the Kenyan government will also give similar rewards to future world-record breakers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Distance runner Faith Kipyegon was given $35,000 and a house by Kenyan President William Ruto on Tuesday as a reward for breaking two world records in the space of a week. Kipyegon, who met with Ruto at the president\u2019s office, said she would now fulfill a promise she had made to buy her father a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":35161,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3295],"tags":[13175,1992,10050,13076,1572,10171,5455,3577,2264,1392,1063,7806,11385,10222,11973,1253,3805,6200,6687,5470,3954,7563,5273,10415,36,7560,594,11146],"class_list":["post-35157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-sport","tag-car","tag-diamond","tag-diamond-league","tag-discipline","tag-ethiopia","tag-faith-kipyegon","tag-family","tag-future","tag-government","tag-italy","tag-kenya","tag-model","tag-olympic","tag-olympic-champion","tag-one","tag-paris","tag-president","tag-race","tag-runner","tag-space","tag-will","tag-william-ruto","tag-woman","tag-work","tag-world","tag-world-champion","tag-who","tag-world-record"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}