Sifan Hassan completes distance triple, profitable girls’s Olympic marathon

On the last word day of the Paris 2024 Olympic Video video games, Sifan Hassan of the Netherlands made historic previous throughout the girls’s marathon, profitable gold with a model new Olympic file of two:22:55. That’s Hassan’s third medal at these Video video games, together with to the two bronze medals she obtained throughout the girls’s 5,000m and 10,000m.

Hassan was the one athlete throughout the self-discipline who had already raced 20 kilometres sooner than Sunday’s marathon, nonetheless that didn’t look like a difficulty for the Dutch distance runner. Hassan quietly stayed at the back of the pack throughout the early ranges of the race and even found herself trailing the lead group on the 29km mark throughout the hills. Nonetheless, she caught up with the sphere moments later and gracefully outkicked Boston Marathon champion Hellen Obiri and world file holder Tigist Assefa throughout the remaining kilometre for Olympic glory.

Ethiopia’s Assefa ended up with the silver, three seconds behind Hassan in 2:22:58, whereas Kenya’s Obiri ran the quickest time of her occupation to claim bronze in 2:23:10. This was Obiri’s third Olympic medal, and her first throughout the marathon (she beforehand obtained two silvers throughout the girls’s 5,000m).

Hassan is not going to be solely the first female athlete to sort out the troublesome Olympic distance triple—5,000m, 10,000m and marathon—however moreover the first athlete to medal in all three events at a single Olympic Video video games.

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