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Nairobi \u2014 World record holder and double world champion Faith Kipyegon showed she has all but recovered from the chaotic 5,000m final at the Olympic Games two days ago when she stormed into the final of her traditional 1500m distance, winning her semi-final heat on Thursday night.<\/em><\/p>\n Kipyegon showed superb tactical acumen to easily win the race in a time of 3:58.64 ahead of Great Briton Georgia Bell.<\/p>\n Compatriot Nelly Chepchirchir could not contain the scorching pace at the end as she came home…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Nairobi \u2014 World record holder and double world champion Faith Kipyegon showed she has all but recovered from the chaotic 5,000m final at the Olympic Games two days ago when she stormed into the final of her traditional 1500m distance, winning her semi-final heat on Thursday night. Kipyegon showed superb tactical acumen to easily win […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":178191,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[38588,258,256,10945,49247,6038,4688,430,23574,257,12022,21156,254],"class_list":["post-178190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-1500m","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-clean","tag-crisp","tag-final","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-kipyegon","tag-news","tag-olympics","tag-smashes","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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