Five-time Wanda Diamond League champion Faith Kipyegon will return to the site of her most recent world record when she headlines the women’s mile at the Prefontaine Classic in Eugene on July 4.
Kipyegon clocked 3:48.68 in the women’s 1500m in Eugene last year, setting a new world record at a Wanda Diamond League meeting for the fifth time in three seasons.
She returns to Hayward Field a year later, taking on the women’s mile at a key point in her campaign for a record-equalling sixth Diamond League title.
Kipyegon has held the mile world record since 2023, when she obliterated Sifan Hassan’s previous record with 4:07.64 at the Wanda Diamond League meeting in Monaco.
Last year, she made an audacious attempt to become the first woman ever to run the distance in less than four minutes.
A three-time Olympic champion and five-time world champion, Kipyegon has also dominated the Diamond League like few other athletes in recent years with five titles and 29 victories in athletics’ premier one-day series.
She has been particularly successful at the US leg of the series, winning each of her last seven appearances at the Prefontaine Classic.
The Kenyan star has already signed up to two Diamond League meetings in 2026. As well as Eugene, she will also take on the 3000m in Monaco on July 10.
Eugene is the ninth leg of the 2026 Wanda Diamond League, which begins in Doha on May 8 and ends at the two-day series final in Brussels on September 4-5.
The series unites the biggest names in track and field in some of the world’s most iconic arenas, crossing four continents and 15 cities over the course of the season.
