Prefontaine Classic 2025 results: Faith Kipyegon amazes with show-closing world record

The 50th edition of the Préfontaine Classic was presented as one of the most stacked track and field meetings ever, and despite some high -level late withdrawal from the Kenny Bednarek Olympic Champions and Quincy Hall, he experienced media threshing.

With ideal weather conditions and a closed window crowds on the University of Oregon campus in Eugene, Hayward Field was entitled to Elite Summer Olympic Games piled up in a five -hour window.

Faith Kipyegon again reduces the 1500 -meter world record

This is how you close the show.

There was no mile of less than 4 minutes led by Faith Kipyegon in Paris, but fans did not have to wait a long time to see her redo something historic.

The Kenyan superstar, owner of six gold medals combined at the Olympic Games and the World Championships, lowered its own world record of 1500 meters from 3: 49.04 to 3: 48.68 to conclude the event. The stimulation was targeted for the world record rhythm and Kipyegon followed it, then some, storming the right house and detaching themselves from Direct Welteji of Ethiopia and Jess Hull in Australia, sending the 12,606 fans to Euphoria. Wetelji finished second in 3: 51.44 and Hull finished third in 3: 52.67, with Nikki Hiltz in the United States in 3: 55.96.

There is no equal for Kipyegon. She is the biggest female runner in the intermediate distance we have ever seen and she showed why on Saturday. Kipyegon won the world record for Genzebe Dibaba in 2023 by becoming the first woman to run less than 3:50. Now she is the first to run less than 3:49 am.

Beatrice Chebet sets her own world record in 5000 meters

It was a great day for Kenyan women on the track. The double Olympic champion Beatrice Chebet, who broke the 10k world record in Eugene last year, became the first woman in history to go under the 14 minutes of 5K. A last round of 61 seconds removed it from compatriot Agnes JEBET NGETICH and the WR not killed holder GUDAF TSEGAY of Ethiopia.

Chebet crossed the line in a new record time of 13: 58.06, exceeding the Tsegay brand of more than two seconds.

Melissa Jefferson-Wooden beats Julien Alfred in the 100 female meters

The woman to beat in 2025 seems to be Melissa Jefferson-Wooden by Coastal Carolina. Her formidable projections on the Grand Chelem track continued in the Diamond League, when she retained Olympic champion Julien Alfred to win in 10.75 seconds, two hundredths faster than Saint Lucian.

Sha’Carri Richardson, who revealed at the press conference on Friday, she had an injury setback in February, did not start well and finished last in her second race of the year. Fortunately for Sha’Carri, she has a Bye in the September world championships as a defending champion in 2023.

Kishane Thompson dominates in the 100 men

The star of the Jamaican sprint Kishane Thompson built an early advance on the rest of the field and never looked back. Freshly out of 9.75 seconds in the Jamaican tests last week, the Olympic silver medalist ran 9.85 seconds for his first prepontaine victory and Diamond League victory. Zharnel Hughes, in Great Britain, and American Trayvon Broomll finished second and third, while the struggles of the season of former world champion Christian Coleman continue with seventh place at 10.06 seconds.

Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone wins 400m, but the record of Sanya Richards-Ross survives

With a personal record of 48.74 seconds in 400 meters, the double champion of Olympic obstacles of 400m and the holder of the world record Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone did not need to lower his time a lot to ward off the 19-year-old American record of Great Sanya Richards-Ross.

McLaughlin-Levrone managed to win the NCAA champion, Aaliyah Butler, of Georgia and the Penn graduate, Isabella Whitaker. However, the winning time of 49.43 seconds means that the Sanya record continues for the moment.

All the struggles of Mu-Nikolayev in his return to 800 meters

The first 800-meter 2025 race for the Tokyo Olympic champion, a Mu-Nikolayev, did not go as planned. She finished the last place at only 2: 03.44. The Tsige of Ethiopia retained prudence Sekgodiso late from South Africa to win in 1: 57.10. It was the first major race of 800m since its fall in Olympic tests last year.

Mu-Nikolayev admitted that it was not ideal for the execution of the 800 as late in the season, but passed two races planned due to the cancellation of the event. She told SB Nation after the race: “I really appreciate that fans always support me through all the ups and downs who come with a professional athlete. These are somehow those who pick you up.

With the American tests at the corner of the street, MU will have to put himself at fast speed to make a team of 800m American competitive for the world championships.

An epic Bowerman Mile with an astonishing end

The intermediate background race is as unpredictable as in athletics, and the Bowerman Mile had an end that no one saw coming.

Like the goose! “The howls emanated from fans, he sought the whole world that the Olympic bronze medalist Yared Nuguse would end the 19 -year -old American drought in this race. With less than 100 meters to go, he was in front of Azeddine Habz in France, but the 20 -year -old Dutch talent, Niels Laros, made a ridiculous return. tried his teeth and struggled, and he surpassed Nuguse on the line.

With a time of 3: 45.94, Laros directed a Dutch record and gave fans the best finish and the best face of the day.

Other higher moments

• Alison Dos Santos of Brazil won an exciting victory against the Olympic champion Rai Benjamin in the 400m male hedges, leading the best of 46.65 seconds of Benjamin to 46.71 from Benjamin. It was the same place that Dos Santos won his world title in 2022 against Benjamin, so history is repeated on this occasion.
• Letsile Tebogo did not have Kenny Bednarek against the 200 male meters, but the Botswana Olympic Champion has always given fans a spectacle with a 19.76 seconds hug, the best time of 2025 American.
• The beginnings of Mya Lesnar’s Diamond League were short. The NCAA women’s champion and the daughter of the former WWE and UFC champion, Brock Lesnar, participated in the elite competition and finished last, obtaining two brands and launching 18.23 million in her third and last attempt by six laps. The holder of the American record Chase Jackson won in 20.94 m on land filled with champions and decorated suitors.
• As usual, Mondo Duplantis won the male pole jump. Six meters was everything he needed to win his good friend and the 2019 world champion Sam Kendricks, but three world record attempts of 6.29 m ended with the pole. See? Swedish is human, after all.

When is the next major athletics event?

The Classic Prefontaine is part of the Diamond League outdoor circuit and takes place until September. The next one is next July 16, broadcast on Flotrack.

Meanwhile, the American national championships (which serve as qualifying for the world championship) will take place in Eugene from July 31 to August. 3, with NBC broadcasting the last two days of competition.

All the classic results of the prefontaine, including complete results in the field, meetings for young people and para-athlete races, can be found here.