Sifan Hassan

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Sifan Hassan
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Hassan at the 2018 European Athletics Championships in Berlin
Personal information
NationalityDutch
Born (1993-01-01) 1 January 1993 (age 28)[1]
Adama, Oromia, Ethiopia
Height1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight49 kg (108 lb)
Sport
Country Netherlands
SportAthletics
Event(s)1500 metres
5000 metres
10000 metres
ClubNike
Coached by
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)
  • Outdoor [2]
  • 800 m: 1:56.81 (Monaco 2017)
  • 1500 m: 3:51.95 ER (Doha 2019)
  • Mile: 4:12.33 WR (Monaco 2019)
  • 3000 m: 8:18.49 ER (Palo Alto 2019)
  • 5000 m: 14:22.12 ER (London 2019)
  • 10,000 m: 29:06.82 ER (Hengelo 2021)
  • Indoor [2]
  • 800 m: 2:00.62i (Apeldoorn 2016)
  • 1500 m: 4:00.46i NR (Stockholm 2015)
  • Mile: 4:19.89i NR (New York 2017)
  • 3000 m: 8:30.74i NR (Birmingham 2017)
  • Road [2]
  • 5 km: 14:44 ER (Monaco 2019)
  • 10 km: 30:37+ NR (Copenhagen 2018)
  • Half marathon: 1:05:15 ER (Copenhagen 2018)
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Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing the  Netherlands
Olympic Games
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Olympic Games 2 0 1
World Championships 2 0 2
World Indoor Championships 1 1 1
Continental Cup 2 0 0
European Championships 2 2 0
European Indoor Championships 1 0 0
European Cross Country C'ships 1 0 0
Total 11 3 4
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2020 Tokyo 5000 m
Gold medal – first place 2020 Tokyo 10,000 m
Bronze medal – third place 2020 Tokyo 1500 m
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2019 Doha 1500 m
Gold medal – first place 2019 Doha 10,000 m
Bronze medal – third place 2015 Beijing 1500 m
Bronze medal – third place 2017 London 5000 m
World Indoor Championships
Gold medal – first place 2016 Portland 1500 m
Silver medal – second place 2018 Birmingham 3000 m
Bronze medal – third place 2018 Birmingham 1500 m
European Championships
Gold medal – first place 2014 Zürich 1500 m
Gold medal – first place 2018 Berlin 5000 m
Silver medal – second place 2014 Zürich 5000 m
Silver medal – second place 2016 Amsterdam 1500 m
European Indoor Championships
Gold medal – first place 2015 Prague 1500 m
European Cross Country Championships
Gold medal – first place 2015 Hyères Individual
Representing Europe Europe
Continental Cup
Gold medal – first place 2014 Marrakech 1500 m
Gold medal – first place 2018 Ostrava 3000 m

Sifan Hassan (Oromo: Siifan Hassan; born 1 January 1993) is an Ethiopian-born Dutch middle- and long-distance runner. She won two gold medals at the 2019 World Championships, in the 1500 metres and 10,000 metres events, becoming the only athlete (male or female) in history to win both events at a single World Championships or Olympic Games.[3]

Hassan was the 2016 1500 metres indoor world champion. At the 2015 World Championships in Athletics, she won a bronze medal in the 1500 metres, following that with a bronze medal in the 5000 metres in the 2017 championships. Hassan is the world record holder for both the 5 km road race and the mile, both set in 2019, as well as the one hour run, set in 2020.[4][5] She held the world record for the women's 10,000 metres for two days in June 2021.[6][7] In 2021, Hassan won the gold medal in the 5000 metres and 10,000 metres, and bronze medal in the 1500 metres event at the Tokyo Olympics. She is the only athlete in history to medal at these events in the same Olympic Games.

Early life[]

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.[8][9] She left Ethiopia as a refugee and arrived in the Netherlands in 2008 at age fifteen.[10][11]

Career[]

Hassan began running while undertaking studies to become a nurse.[12] Affiliated with Eindhoven Atletiek,[13] she entered the Eindhoven half marathon in 2011 and won the race with a time of 77:10 minutes. She was also runner-up at two cross country races (Sylvestercross and Mol Lotto Cross Cup). She won those races in 2012, as well as the 3000 m at the Leiden Gouden Spike meet.[14]

Hassan made her breakthrough in the 2013 season. 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. 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.[14][15]

Hassan became a Dutch citizen in November 2013 and the following month she made her first appearance for the Netherlands. 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.[16] She also won the Warandeloop and Lotto Cross Cup Brussels races that winter.[17] At the beginning of 2014 she ran a world leading time of 8:45.32 minutes for the 3000 m at the Weltklasse in Karlsruhe,[18] then broke the Dutch record in the indoor 1500 m with a time of 4:05.34 minutes at the Birmingham Indoor Grand Prix.[19]

At the 2015 World Championships in Beijing, Hassan won the bronze medal in the 1500 meters. She became the second female Dutch athlete ever to win a medal at the World Championships, after Dafne Schippers. She was the third female Dutch winner at the 2015 European Cross Country Championships, following in the footsteps of fellow African migrants Hilda Kibet and Lornah Kiplagat.[20]

Hassan won her heat in the 1500 m in the 2016 Summer Olympics in 4:06.64 before Faith Kipyegon. In the semifinals she placed second in 4:03.62 after Genzebe Dibaba who won in 4:03.06. In the final Kipyegon took the Olympic gold medal with 4:08.92, Dibaba was the runner up with 4:10.27 and Jennifer Simpson took the bronze medal in 4:10.53. Hassan placed fifth in a time of 4:11.23.[21]

She finished 5th in the 1500 metres at the 2017 World Athletics Championships and won the bronze medal in the 5000 metres event. On 13 July 2018, she broke the European record for 5000 meters by finishing second at the Rabat Diamond League in 14:22.34.[22]

Hassan (right) with Faith Kipyegon and Genzebe Dibaba at the medal ceremony during the 2015 World Championships in Beijing

She won the first Millicent Fawcett Mile at the 2018 London Anniversary Games in a time of 4:14.71, the fourth fastest result at the time.[23]

She won the gold medal at the 2018 European Championships with the time 14:46:12, setting the new championships record.

On 16 September 2018 she broke the European record for the half marathon with a time of 65:15, winning the Copenhagen half marathon[24]

On 17 Feb, 2019 Hassan set the world record for a 5 km road race in Monaco.[25] Her winning time was 14:44. The 5 km road race has been a world record event since 1 November 2017.[26]

Hassan was the 2019 Diamond League winner at both 1500 m and 5000 m.[27] She is the training partner of Yomif Kejelcha.[28]

Hassan set the world record for the women's 10,000 metres on 6 June 2021 with a time of 29:06.82 at Hengelo, but lost the record two days later when Letesenbet Gidey achieved a time of 29:01.03 at the same stadium.[7] She retains the European record for this distance which she has held since 10 October 2020.[29]

Mile world record[]

On 12 July 2019, Hassan entered the mile run at the Herculis meet in Fontvieille, Monaco. Olha Lyakhova was the pace setter, taking the field through the first two laps (measured at the start line, not the quarter-mile splits) in 64.26 and 63.94 (2:08.20). As is typical for Hassan, she was last off the start line, but over the next 150 metres, slowly eased herself around the field on the outside into the marking position behind Lyakhova. Gabriela DeBues-Stafford soon moved through the field in between Hassan and Lyakhova for the next lap before Hassan and Gudaf Tsegay separated from the field as the only chasers. Between 800 and 1000 metres, Lyakhova strained to keep on pace, but Hassan and Tsegay were moving forward. After Lyakhova stepped out, the two found themselves 15 metres ahead of the pack. At 1200 metres, Hassan was looking back at her close chaser Tsegay in 3:10.13 (a 61.93 lap). Hassan accelerated, opening a 5-metre gap over the next 100 metres. Continuing at this pace, she passed 1500 metres in about 3:55. 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.[30] The athletes trailing Hassan rewrote the all-time top 25 list, with Laura Weightman moving into position #15, DeBues-Stafford into #17, and after #5 all-time Tsegay faded into the pack she was followed by Rababe Arafi, Axumawit Embaye, Winnie Nanyondo and Ciara Mageean moving into positions #20–23.

2019 IAAF World Championships in Doha[]

On 28 September, she became the 2019 World Champion in the 10,000 metres in her second race for that distance. Her first race at the 10,000-metre distance was in Stanford in a time of 31:18.12, just fast enough to achieve the qualifying standard for the 2019 World Championships. The winning time of 30:17.62 was the best time of the year on the track. Alina Reh (Germany) led the field after 3000 metres in 9:29.69. The front runner reached the halfway point in 15:32.70. finished in 30:21.23, with Agnes Tirop (Kenya) coming in third place in 30:25.50. The second half of the run was covered in 14:45.[31]

She also won the 1500 metres race with a time of 3:51.95 (sixth place on the 1500 m all-time-list), setting a new Championships and European record. The second-placed finisher was Faith Kipyegon in 3:54.22, a new Kenyan national record, and the third place went to Gudaf Tsegay with 3:54.38.[32]

Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games[]

Hassan won gold in the 5000 metres and 10000 metres at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. She also won bronze in the 1500 metres. She became the only athlete ever to medal in the 1500, 5000, and 10000 metre events at the same Olympic Games. Her winning time was 14:36.79 ahead of Hellen Obiri from Kenya with 14:38.36, Gudaf Tsegay from Ethiopia won the bronze medal with a time of 14:38.87. Her gold medal win made her the first Dutch woman with an Olympic athletics medal in a long-distance event. She is the first non-Kenyan or Ethiopian athlete to win the event since Gabriela Szabo won in the 2000 Sydney Olympics.[33]

Coach[]

Beginning in 2016, Hassan was coached by Alberto Salazar at the Nike Oregon Project.[34][35] In 2019 Salazar began serving a four-year ban from athletics for doping violations dating from before he started coaching Hassan.

Hassan's current coach is Tim Rowberry who began coaching her in July 2018. Rowberry was also the coach of runner Yomif Kejelcha, Hassan's training partner until his recent departure to Adidas. [36][37]

Personal bests[]

Outdoor
Distance Time Notes Location Date
800 metres 1:56.81 Monaco (Stade Louis II) 20 Jul 2017
1000 metres 2:34.68 NR Hengelo Fanny Blankers-Koen Stadion 24 May 2015
1500 metres 3:51.95 ER Doha Khalifa Stadium 5 Oct 2019
One mile 4:12.33 WR Monaco Stade Louis II 12 Jul 2019
3000 metres 8:18.49[38] ER Stanford Cobb Track & Angell Field 30 Jun 2019
5000 metres 14:22.12 ER London Olympic Stadium 21 Jul 2019
10,000 metres 29:06.82 ER Hengelo Fanny Blankers-Koen Stadion 6 Jun 2021[39]
Indoor
Distance Time Notes Location Date
800 metres 2:04.16 Gent (Topsporthal) 9 Feb 2014
1500 metres 4:00.46 NR Stockholm (Globe Arena) 19 Feb 2015
Mile 4:19.89 NR New York City 11 Feb 2017
3000 metres 8:30.74[1] NR Karlsruhe (Europahalle) 1 Feb 2014
Road
Distance Time Notes Location Date
5 km 14:44 WR (womens only race)
10 km 34:28
15 km 53:57
Half marathon 65:15 ER Copenhagen 16 Sep 2018

References[]

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External links[]

Records
Preceded by
Russia Svetlana Masterkova 		Women's Mile World record holder
12 July 2019 – present 		Succeeded by
Incumbent
Preceded by
Russia Liliya Shobukhova 		Women's 5,000m European record holder
13 July 2018 – 		Succeeded by
Incumbent
Preceded by
Soviet Union Tatyana Kazankina 		Women's 1,500m European record holder
5 October 2019 – 		Succeeded by
Incumbent
Preceded by
United Kingdom Paula Radcliffe 		Women's 10,000m European record holder
10 October 2020 – 		Succeeded by
Incumbent
Preceded by
Ethiopia Almaz Ayana 		Women's 10,000 m World record holder
6 June 2021 – 8 June 2021 		Succeeded by
Ethiopia Letesenbet Gidey
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