Sifan Hassan
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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]
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[]
Distance | Time | Notes | Location | Date |
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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] |
Distance | Time | Notes | Location | Date |
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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 |
Distance | Time | Notes | Location | Date |
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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[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b Hassan IAAF Profile. IAAF. Retrieved on 27 August 2015.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c IAAF. "Sifan HASSAN - Athlete Profile".
- ^ Dutch, Taylor (5 October 2019). "Sifan Hassan Wins Unprecedented World Championship Double; Houlihan Sets American Record". Runner's World. Retrieved 7 October 2019.
- ^ "Sifan Hassan smashes women's 10,000 metres world record". The Times of India. 6 June 2021. Retrieved 6 June 2021.
- ^ "Program 2019 – Diamond League – Monaco". monaco.diamondleague.com. Retrieved 12 July 2019.
- ^ "Sifan Hassan: Dutch athlete breaks 10,000m world record by more than 10 seconds". BBC. 6 June 2021. Retrieved 6 June 2021.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Letesenbet Gidey breaks 2-day-old world record in 10,000m". OlympicTalk. NBC Sports. 8 June 2021. Retrieved 9 June 2021.
- ^ "Atileet Siifan Hasan fiigichaan rikkardiiwwan cabsuu itti fufte kun eenyu, akkamiin as geesse?". BBC News Afaan Oromoo. 7 December 2019. Retrieved 4 August 2021.
- ^ Brink, Cors Van den (24 November 2013). Een Edammertje voor de atlete uit Nazareth (in Dutch). Atletiek Week. Retrieved on 2014-02-22.
- ^ "Sifan Hassan chases athletics history with Tokyo Olympics treble attempt". www.ft.com. 2021. Retrieved 7 August 2021.
- ^ Tokyo, Ian O'Riordan In. "Sifan Hassan on course for unprecedented treble after 5,000m win". The Irish Times. Retrieved 7 August 2021.
- ^ Sifan Hassan Archived 1 March 2014 at the Wayback Machine. Global Sports Communication. Retrieved on 22 February 2014.
- ^ Sifan Hassan. European Athletics. Retrieved on 22 February 2014.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Sifan Hassan. Tilastopaja. Retrieved on 22 February 2014.
- ^ Rorick, Jim (22 October 2013). 2013 World Comprehensive List – Women. Track and Field News. Retrieved on 2014-03-01.
- ^ Mulkeen, Jon (8 December 2013). Third time lucky for Duarte at European Cross as Bezabeh regains title. IAAF. Retrieved on 2014-02-22.
- ^ Minshull, Phil (22 December 2013). Hassan and Kibet take the honours in Brussels – IAAF Cross Country Permit. IAAF. Retrieved on 2014-02-22.
- ^ Minshull, Phil (1 February 2014). Genzebe Dibaba smashes world indoor 1500 m record with 3:55.17 in Karlsruhe. IAAF. Retrieved on 2014-02-22.
- ^ Birmingham: Sifan Hassan verbetert NR 1500m: 4’05″34 (in Dutch). Losse Veter. Retrieved on 22 February 2014.
- ^ Hassan and Kaya victorious at European Cross Country Championships. IAAF (13 December 2015). Retrieved on 2015-12-13.
- ^ "Results - Womens 1500m - Athletics - Rio 2016 - Olympics". BBC Sport. Retrieved 26 March 2020.
- ^ IAAF Diamond League 2018 Rabat results Retrieved on 13 July 2018.
- ^ "Programme 2018 and results". Muller Anniversary Games. Diamond League. Retrieved 23 July 2018.
- ^ European Athletics website Retrieved on 2 October 2018.
- ^ "14:43! Chepkoech breaks world 5km record in Monaco | REPORT | World Athletics". www.worldathletics.org. Retrieved 18 February 2021.
- ^ "Wanders and Hassan set world 5km records in Monaco| News | iaaf.org". www.iaaf.org. Retrieved 7 October 2019.
- ^ "Hassan completes Diamond distance double in Brussels – IAAF Diamond League| News | iaaf.org". www.iaaf.org. Retrieved 7 October 2019.
- ^ "Hassan and Kejelcha: training partners and mile world record holders | News | iaaf.org". www.iaaf.org. Retrieved 7 October 2019.
- ^ Mike Rowbottom (12 July 2019). "Hassan breaks world mile record in Monaco with 4:12.33 - IAAF Diamond League". IAAF. Retrieved 9 June 2021.
- ^ "Hassan breaks world mile record in Monaco with 4:12.33 - IAAF Diamond League | REPORT | World Athletics".
- ^ "Report: women's 10,000m - IAAF World Athletics Championships Doha 2019| News | iaaf.org". www.iaaf.org. Retrieved 29 September 2019.
- ^ NDR. "Zweite Goldmedaille - Historischer Erfolg für Hassan". lawm.sportschau.de (in German). Retrieved 5 October 2019.
- ^ "Sifan Hassan of the Netherlands wins women's 5,000m". Tokyo 2020. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
- ^ Dennehy, Cathal (2 October 2019). "Coach Alberto Salazar won't be missed". Irish Examiner. Retrieved 2 October 2019.
- ^ Homewood, Brian (1 October 2019). "Hassan says career thrown into uncertainty by Salazar ban". Reuters. Retrieved 2 October 2019.
- ^ "Sifan Hassan Wins 5,000 Meter Gold, Eyes More With Historic Triple Attempt". Sport's Illustrated. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
- ^ "Olympics 2021: Dutch track star Sifan Hassan's quest for an improbable treble". ESPN. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
- ^ "European 3000m record for Sifan Hassan at Pre Classic". Athletics Weekly. 30 June 2019.
- ^ Ingle, Sean (6 June 2021). "Sifan Hassan smashes women's 10,000m record by 10 seconds in super spikes". The Guardian. Retrieved 6 June 2021.
External links[]
- Sifan Hassan at OlympicChannel.com (archived)
- Sifan Hassan at Olympics.com
- Sifan Hassan at Olympedia
- Sifan Hassan at World Athletics
- Sifan Hassan at European Athletic Association (archived)
- Sifan Hassan at Royal Dutch Athletics Federation (in Dutch)
- Sifan Hassan at Diamond League
- Sifan Hassan at TrackField.brinkster.net
- Sifan Hassan at Munzinger Sports Archives (in German)
- Sifan Hassan at The-Sports.org
- 1993 births
- World Athletics Championships winners
- Diamond League winners
- IAAF Continental Cup winners
- World Athletics Indoor Championships winners
- World Athletics Championships medalists
- European Athletics Championships medalists
- European Cross Country Championships winners
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- World Athletics Championships athletes for the Netherlands
- Olympic athletes of the Netherlands
- Dutch female long-distance runners
- Dutch female middle-distance runners
- Ethiopian female long-distance runners
- Ethiopian female middle-distance runners
- Dutch female cross country runners
- Ethiopian female cross country runners
- Dutch people of Ethiopian descent
- Ethiopian emigrants to the Netherlands
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Oromia Region
- Oromo people
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for the Netherlands
- Olympic gold medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Olympic bronze medalists for the Netherlands
- Olympic bronze medalists in athletics (track and field)