{"id":3439,"date":"2020-09-02T15:19:18","date_gmt":"2020-09-02T15:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/2020\/09\/02\/kipyegon-the-light-will-guide-me-to-the-world-record\/"},"modified":"2020-09-02T15:19:18","modified_gmt":"2020-09-02T15:19:18","slug":"kipyegon-the-light-will-guide-me-to-the-world-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/2020\/09\/02\/kipyegon-the-light-will-guide-me-to-the-world-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Kipyegon: &#8216;The light will guide me to the world record&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The 1000m world record has been standing for over 24 years. In 1996 Svetlana Masterkova produced a masterful run to set the fastest kilometre of all time at the 20th edition of the AG Memorial Van Damme.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The 44th edition will take place on Friday and will feature an attempt to break that record. Enter Faith Kipyegon, the reigning 1500m Olympic champion.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Kipyegon put her career on hold in 2018 to give birth to her daughter Alun. Last year she returned with a silver medal at the Doha world championships. \u201cI am really happy to be here in Brussels,\u201d Kipyegon said on Wednesday. \u201cA couple of weeks ago I came within 0:17 of the world record in Monaco, but due to the coronacrisis, which is also happening in Kenya, I didn\u2019t have an optimal preparation.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cAfter Monaco I went back home to Kenya to train specifically on speed the past few weeks. I have a lot of confidence for Friday\u2019s race.&#8221;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>In Monaco the world record attempt was supported by Wavelight technology, which will also be installed in Brussels. \u201cWavelight is a moving light signal around the track that shows exactly how fast runners have to go to stay on a certain pace, in this case the world record pace,\u201d Wavelight managing director and former 800m runner Bram Som explained.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Faith Kipyegon is very excited by the addition of the Wavelight system, which will be supplemented by several pacemakers. \u201cThe light will guide me to the world record,\u201d she pledged.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The Wavelight will be used at the AG Memorial Van Damme during the women\u2019s 100 metres, the men\u2019s 1500 metres and all world record attempts. Find out more about Wavelight at <a class=\"external-link-new-window\" href=\"https:\/\/wavelight.live\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Opens internal link in current window\" rel=\"noopener\">wavelight.live<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Faith Kipyegon\u2019s spirits are high ahead of Friday\u2019s AG Memorial Van Damme. The 26-year-old...","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2269,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"city":[],"class_list":["post-3439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brussels"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3439"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=3439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}