Jessica Hull is confident she's a better runner now than the athlete who won Olympic 1500m silver in spectacular style in Paris last year.

As is the case pretty much every time she toes the starting line, four-time 1500m world champ Faith Kipyegon is the prohibitive favourite for Tuesday night's 1500m final at the world championships in Tokyo.

But if you were to make a case for anyone to cause a huge upset, it would most likely be Hull.

Without yet quite reaching the heights of 2024, Hull has been a model of top-end consistency this year.

She was a star of the inaugural Grand Slam series and went within a whisker of winning a maiden Diamond League final, only to run out of gas in the shadow of the line late last month in Zurich.

"In every aspect I have improved," said the 28-year-old

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