Silesia Diamond League 2025: Kipyegon thrills again on Mondo athletics track

Mondo Sportflex™ Super X 720  athletics track shows its prowess in Poland.

Mondo Sportflex™ Super X 720 track in Chorzow’s Silesian Stadium again helped deliver a record-breaking afternoon of athletics at the Silesia Diamond League 2025 on Saturday 16 August.

After the fireworks 12 months ago when Mondo Duplantis and Jakob Ingebrigtsen broke world records, Faith Kipyegon almost followed in their footsteps when she clocked 8:07.04 for the 3000m, the second fastest time ever.

Kipyegon runs her best times on Mondo track

Mondo’s Sportflex™ Super X 720  athletics track is clearly a surface Kipyegon loves running on.

Stade Charlety in Paris has the same type of athletics track and was where the phenomenal Kenyan set world records over 1500m and 5000m and where she also returned to in June for her much-publicised attempt to become the first woman to run a sub-four minute mile.

Kipyegon has also won her three Olympic titles and three of her four world titles on Mondo tracks, as well as advertising her talent around the globe when she won the 2012 World U20 1500m title in Barcelona.

Her stunning performance in Silesia over seven-and-a-half laps of the track, which was a Diamond League and African area record, was only one of a series of highlights in Silesia.

Headline-grabbing feats in Silesia

Other highlights on the Silesian Stadium’s Mondo Sportflex Super X 720™ track included:

  • Keely Hodgkinson (GBR): who started her season with a world-leading 800m 1:54.74, the Paris 2024 Olympic champion’s second fastest time ever. Seven of the 12 finishers in the race set personal bests over two laps of the track.
  • Karsten Warholm (NOR): glided over the barriers for a 400m hurdles world lead and Diamond League 400m hurdles record of 46.26, the third fastest time ever.
  • Masai Russell (USA): flew to victory in the 100m hurdles, winning in 12.19, the fourth fastest time ever and a Diamond League record.
  • Femke Bol (NED): improved her own 400m hurdles world-leading time to 51.91.

In addition, eight national records and 28 personal bests were set in Silesia on Mondo athletics track.

Records on Mondo athletics track

After seven 2025 Diamond League meetings in stadia with Mondo athletics tracks, the overall record count is:

  • 1 world record
  • 1 world U20 record
  • 11 Area records
  • 7 Diamond League records
  • 24 world-leading marks
  • 45 meeting records
  • 42 national records

2025 Diamond League stages whose stadiums are equipped with Mondo athletics tracks

  • Xiamen (CHN)                    26th April 2025
  • Shanghai / Keqiao (CHN) 3rd May 2025
  • Rabat (MAR)                      25th May
  • Rome (ITA)                         6th June 2025
  • Paris (FRA)                           20th June 2025
  • London (GBR)                    19th July 2025
  • Silesia (POL)                        16th August 2025
  • Brussels (BEL)                       22th August 2025