Kenya's Faith Kipyegon came exceptionally close to breaking the women's 3,000m world record at the Silesia Diamond League meet on Saturday, clocking an impressive 8min 07.04sec. This performance further solidified her legendary status in athletics, just weeks after she improved her own 1,500m world record.

• Kipyegon finished only 0.93 seconds shy of China's Wang Junxia's 8:06.11 world record, set in 1993.
• Faith Kipyegon is a three-time Olympic and four-time world gold medallist, and also holds the mile world record.
• She had only raced the 3,000m event twice before this competition, with her previous personal best of 8:23.55 dating back to 2014.