![]() ![]() She also won the Warandeloop and Lotto Cross Cup Brussels races that winter. At the 2013 European Cross Country Championships she won the gold medal in the under-23 category and helped the Dutch team to third in the rankings. 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. On the 2013 IAAF Diamond League circuit she was runner-up in the 1500 m at Athletissima with a personal best of 4:03.73 minutes and was third at the DN Galan 3000 m with a best of 8:32.53 minutes-this time ranked her the fourth-fastest runner in the world that year. She ran an 800 metres best of 2:00.86 minutes to win at the KBC Night of Athletics and took wins in the 1500 m at the Nijmegen Global Athletics and Golden Spike Ostrava meets. Hassan made her breakthrough in the 2013 season. She won those races in 2012, as well as the 3000 m at the Leiden Gouden Spike meet. She was also runner-up at two cross country races (Sylvestercross and Mol Lotto Cross Cup). Sifan (R) at the 2012 Gouden Spike meeting held in Leiden (NL).Īffiliated with Eindhoven Atletiek, Hassan entered the Eindhoven half marathon in 2011 and won the race with a time of 77:10 minutes. She began running while undertaking studies to become a nurse. She left Ethiopia as a refugee and arrived in the Netherlands in 2008 at age fifteen. 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. She owns five European records (1500 m, 3000 m, 5000 m, 10,000 m, half marathon) and four other Dutch records. She held a world record at 10,000 m for two days in June 2021. Hassan is the world record holder for both the one mile on the track and 5 km road race, both set in 2019, as well as the one hour run, set in 2020. In her debut over the classic 26.2-mile distance, she won the 2023 London Marathon. She is also a three-time Diamond League winner, having secured the 1500 m/5000 m double in 2019. She earned six European medals (including two cross country titles), and one European indoor medal. Hassan is a three-time World Indoor Championships medallist, winning gold at 1500 m in 2016 as well as silver at 3000 m and bronze for 1500 m in 2018. She won a bronze at the 1500 m in 2015, and at the 5000 m in 2017 when she also finished fifth in the 1500 m. ![]() Īt the World Athletics Championships, Hassan took 1500 m and 10,000 m titles in 2019, becoming the only athlete (male or female) in history to win both these events at a single World Championships or Olympic Games. She is only the second woman to complete an Olympic distance double. Hassan is the only athlete in Olympic history to win medals across a middle-distance event and both long-distance races in a single Games. She completed an unprecedented triple at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, winning gold medals in both the 5000 metres and 10,000 metres and a bronze medal for the 1500 metres. Sifan Hassan ( Oromo: Siifan Hassan born 1 January 1993 ) is an Ethiopian-born Dutch middle- and long-distance runner. ![]()
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