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Revision as of 02:08, 12 September 2019

Sifan Hassan
Hassan at the 2015 World Championships
Personal information
NationalityDutch
Born (1993-01-01) January 1, 1993 (age 32)[1]
Adama, Ethiopia
Height1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight49 kg (108 lb)
Sport
Country Netherlands
SportAthletics
Event1500 metres
ClubNike Oregon Project
Coached byAlberto Salazar
Medal record
World Championships
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 (Siifan Hassan; born 1993) is an Ethiopian-Dutch middle- and long-distance runner.

She was the under-23 winner at the 2013 European Cross Country Championships. She was the 2016 1500 m indoor World champion. At the 2015 Beijing World championships she won a Bronze medal in the 1500 m and a Bronze medal in the 5000 m at the 2017 London edition. In July 2019 she broke the women’s mile world record.[2].

Career

Born in Adama in Ethiopia,[3] she left the country as a refugee and arrived in the Netherlands in 2008 at age fifteen. She began running while undertaking studies to become a nurse.[4]

Affiliated with Eindhoven Atletiek,[5] 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 meeting.[6]

Sifan 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 over 1500 m at the Nijmegen Global Athletics and Golden Spike Ostrava meetings. 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 in the world that year.[6][7]

She gained Dutch citizenship in November 2013 and the following month she made her first appearance for her adopted country. 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.[8] She also won the Warandeloop and Lotto Cross Cup Brussels races that winter.[9] 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,[10] then broke the Dutch record in the indoor 1500 m with a run of 4:05.34 minutes at the Birmingham Indoor Grand Prix.[11]

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.[12]

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

She won the first Millicent Fawcett Mile at the 2018 London Anniversary Games in a time of 4:14.71,[14] which was at the time the #4 mark of all time.

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

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

Mile world record

On July 12, 2019, Hassan entered 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 finish line, not the quarter mile splits) of 64.26 and 63.94 (2:08.20). As 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 squeezed 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 dropped out, they were all alone, 15 metres up on the pack. At the bell, Hassan was looking back at her close chaser Tsegay at 3:10.13 (a 61.93 lap). Hassan accelerated, making a 5 metre break over the next 100 metres. Hassan kept on with the fast pace, the gap ever widening. She passed 1500 metres about 3:55 and continued running hard to home. Hassan finished her final lap in 62.20, her final time of 4:12:33 broke Svetlana Masterkova's almost 23 year old world record.[16] Those distant chasing athletes Hassan ran away from rewrote the all time top 25 list with Laura Weightman moving into position #15, DeBues-Stafford #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 #20-3.

Personal bests

Indoor personal bests

  • 800 metres - 2:04.16 (Gent (Topsporthal), 09 Feb. 2014)
  • 1500 metres - 4:00.46 (Stockholm (Globe Arena), 19 Feb. 2015)
  • Mile - 4:19.89 (New York City, 11 Feb. 2017)
  • 3000 metres - 8:45.32 (Karlsruhe (Europahalle), 01 Feb. 2014)[1]

References

  1. ^ a b Hassan IAAF Profile. IAAF. Retrieved on 2015-08-27.
  2. ^ "Program 2019 - Diamond League - Monaco". monaco.diamondleague.com. Retrieved 2019-07-12. {{cite web}}: no-break space character in |title= at position 13 (help)
  3. ^ Brink, Cors Van den (2013-11-24). Een Edammertje voor de atlete uit Nazareth Template:Nl icon. Atletiek Week. Retrieved on 2014-02-22.
  4. ^ Sifan Hassan Archived 2014-03-01 at the Wayback Machine. Global Sports Communication. Retrieved on 2014-02-22.
  5. ^ Sifan Hassan. European Athletics. Retrieved on 2014-02-22.
  6. ^ a b Sifan Hassan. Tilastopaja. Retrieved on 2014-02-22.
  7. ^ Rorick, Jim (2013-10-22). 2013 World Comprehensive List - Women. Track and Field News. Retrieved on 2014-03-01.
  8. ^ Mulkeen, Jon (2013-12-08). Third time lucky for Duarte at European Cross as Bezabeh regains title. IAAF. Retrieved on 2014-02-22.
  9. ^ Minshull, Phil (2013-12-22). Hassan and Kibet take the honours in Brussels – IAAF Cross Country Permit. IAAF. Retrieved on 2014-02-22.
  10. ^ Minshull, Phil (2014-02-01). Genzebe Dibaba smashes world indoor 1500m record with 3:55.17 in Karlsruhe. IAAF. Retrieved on 2014-02-22.
  11. ^ Birmingham: Sifan Hassan verbetert NR 1500m: 4’05″34 Template:Nl icon. Losse Veter. Retrieved on 2014-02-22.
  12. ^ Hassan and Kaya victorious at European Cross Country Championships. IAAF (2015-12-13). Retrieved on 2015-12-13.
  13. ^ IAAF Diamond League 2018 Rabat results Retrieved on July 13, 2018.
  14. ^ "Programme 2018 and results". Muller Anniversary Games. Diamond League. Retrieved 23 July 2018.
  15. ^ European Athletics website Retrieved on October 2, 2018.
  16. ^ https://www.iaaf.org/news/report/hassan-breaks-mile-world-record-in-monaco
  17. ^ "European 3000m record for Sifan Hassan at Pre Classic". Athletics Weekly. 30 June 2019.
Records
Preceded by Women's Mile World Record Holder
July 12, 1996 – present 		Succeeded by
Incumbent
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