1. Sifan Hassan is a Dutch middle- and long-distance runner.
45 Facts About Sifan Hassan
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Sifan Hassan is most recognized for her versatility in running championship and world-leading performances in widely disparate distances.
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Sifan Hassan completed an unprecedented triple at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, winning gold medals in both the 5,000 metres and 10,000 metres and a bronze medal for the 1,500 metres.
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Sifan Hassan is only the second of three women to complete an Olympic distance double.
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At the Paris 2024 Olympics, Sifan Hassan secured a bronze medal in both the women's 5,000 m and 10,000 m events and gold in the women's marathon, becoming the only woman to win the Olympic gold medal in the 5,000 metres, 10,000 metres and Marathon races.
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Sifan Hassan earned six European medals, and one European indoor medal.
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Sifan Hassan has been the world record holder for the one hour run since 2020.
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Sifan Hassan held the world record for the one mile on the track from July 2019 to July 2023, when Faith Kipyegon overtook it.
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Sifan Hassan holds six European records and three other Dutch records.
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Sifan Hassan was born in Adama, Oromia, Ethiopia and raised in the countryside of Kersa in the Munesa district of the Arsi Zone of Oromia.
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Sifan Hassan left her home country as a refugee and arrived in the Netherlands in 2008 at age 15.
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Sifan Hassan began running while undertaking studies to become a nurse.
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Sifan Hassan was runner-up at two cross country races.
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Sifan Hassan became a Dutch citizen in November 2013, too late for competing at the 2013 World Championships, and the following month she made her first appearance for the Netherlands.
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Sifan Hassan won the Warandeloop and Lotto Cross Cup Brussels races that winter.
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Sifan Hassan followed it by winning at the Glasgow Grand Prix, holding off Abeba Aregawi.
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Sifan Hassan ended her season by winning at the 2014 IAAF Continental Cup.
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Sifan Hassan became the second female Dutch athlete ever to win a medal at the World Championships, after Dafne Schippers.
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Sifan Hassan won gold in the senior race at the European Cross Country Championships.
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Sifan Hassan was the third female Dutch winner in the event, following in the footsteps of fellow African migrants Hilda Kibet and Lornah Kiplagat.
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Sifan Hassan took silver in the same event in a slow, tactical race at the European Championships.
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At 1200 metres, Sifan Hassan was looking back at her close chaser Tsegay in 3:10.13.
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Sifan Hassan accelerated, opening a 5-metre gap over the next 100 metres.
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Sifan Hassan covered the last 409.344 metres in 62.20, her final time of 4:12:33 breaking Svetlana Masterkova's almost 23-year-old world record.
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Sifan Hassan was the double 2019 Diamond League champion, winning both the 1500 and 5000 metres Trophies.
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Sifan Hassan won the 1500 metres race with a time of 3:51.95, setting new championship and European records.
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On 4 September 2020, Sifan Hassan set a new world record for the rarely run One hour run completing 18,930 metres at the Memorial van Damme in Brussels.
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On 10 October, Sifan Hassan set a European record for the women's 10,000 metres in a time of 29:36.67, breaking the best set by Great Britain's Paula Radcliffe in 2002 by more than 24 seconds.
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Sifan Hassan lost the record two days later when Ethiopia's Letesenbet Gidey achieved a time of 29:01.03 at the same stadium.
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Sifan Hassan then finished second at the Monaco Diamond League in a time of 3:53.60, finishing behind Faith Kipyegon who ran a new national record of 3:51.07.
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Sifan Hassan won gold in the 5000 metres and 10,000 metres at the delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games.
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Sifan Hassan became the only athlete ever to medal in the 1500,5000, and 10,000 metres events at the same Olympics.
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Sifan Hassan was the first non-Kenyan or Ethiopian athlete to win the event since Gabriela Szabo won in the 2000 Sydney Olympics.
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Sifan Hassan ended a break from competing just 8 days before the World Championships in Eugene by running at the low-key Stumptown Twilight Meet in Portland where she won the 5000 metres in 15:13.41.
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At the aforementioned World Championships, Sifan Hassan finished sixth in the 5000 metres and fourth in the 10,000 metres.
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Sifan Hassan won both the 10,000 metres and the 1500 metres in 29:37.80 and 3:58.12, respectively.
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Sifan Hassan came back to win bronze in the 1500 metres and silver in the 5000 metres.
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Sifan Hassan placed a disappointing seventh over the same distance at the Prefontaine Classic.
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At the Paris 2024 Olympics, Sifan Hassan secured the bronze medal in the women's 5,000 metres.
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Sifan Hassan won bronze in the 10,000 metres then, on the final day, won gold in the women's marathon after sprinting the final 200 metres to beat Ethiopian Tigst Assefa by three seconds.
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Sifan Hassan became the first Olympic athlete male or female to win medals in these three events at the same Games since Czechoslovak Emil Zatopek in 1952.
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In December 2024, Sifan Hassan was named World Athletics Female Athlete of the Year.
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Sifan Hassan was the first Dutchwoman to win the award.
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Sifan Hassan achieved her first career breakthroughs while under the direction of Dutch national coach Honore Hoedt.
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Sifan Hassan decided to search for other coaching options at the end of 2016 after injuries hampered her buildup to the Rio Olympics.