If you have that pain, it's success - Faith Kipyegon

I want to do this for my country. I want to do this for myself. I want to do this for the next young girl to know that if a young girl can win a gold medal, why not us

If you are in training, and you don't feel pain, next thing you are going to a race, and you don’t perform good. But if you have that pain, it's a success. So, you feel pain today, I think it will be a successful tomorrow to achieve what you have been feeling pain [for].

How I started athletics was like magic or something. I started when I was in primary school, back at home, where I used to do training in the school