Kipyegon has swept seven of the past eight global titles, with Sifan Hassan the last athlete to deny her at the 2019 World Championships in Doha.

Keen to continue pushing the boundaries – and, as a mother, inspire young girls and women in particular – she made an ambitious bid to become the first woman in history to run a sub-four-minute mile in June.

Although she came up short, she still ran 1.22 seconds faster than her personal best of 4:07.64 – the time which remains the official mile world record, and still five seconds faster than any other woman has run in history.

The oldest woman to ever win a world 1500m title, she continues to go from strength to strength.

Kipyegon began the year by just missing the world 1000m record in April, improved her 1500m world record to 3:48.68 in July, and was within a second of breaking the 3,000m record – which has stood for 32 years – in her final race before Tokyo.

One night after Armand Duplantis soared to a 14th world record and third world title at Japan’s National Stadium, this too appears a reign of dominance unlikely to end any time soon.