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2024 Year in Sports, Athletics: Duplantis dominates, Neeraj-Arshad showdown in Paris Olympics, a slew of world records

There were records galore from athletics in 2024, both at the national and global level. | Photo Credit: NURPHOTO VIA GETTY IMAGES Kenya’s Faith Kipyegon bettered her own world record in the women’s 1500m at the Paris Diamond League meet. Sweden’s Armand Duplantis poses next to a board displaying his new 6,26 meters world record after the men’s pole vault …

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3 weeks ago

Sifan Hassan facing tough competition in BBC World Sports Personality of the Year award

NL Times

Sifan Hassan is one of several highly prestigious athletes who are nominated for the BBC World Sports Personality of the Year award. Other nominees include US Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles, Basketball player Caitlin Clark, and Armand Duplantis, who broke the Olympic and world record in pole vaulting in 2024. One of the contenders for the award is Simone Biles, …

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3 weeks ago

Olympic marathon champion Sifan Hassan voted Athlete of the Year

Dutch News

Olympic marathon champion Sifan Hassan has become the first Dutch sportswoman to be named World Athlete of the Year at a ceremony held by the sport’s governing body. She was also named women’s out of stadium athlete of the year at World Athletics’ annual awards ceremony in Monaco. “Sport is good for everyone’s health, and if we invest in it …

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3 weeks ago

World Athletics: Olympic champions Hassan and Tebogo named ‘Athletes of the Year’

The Hindu

Dutch marathon runner Sifan Hassan and Botswanan sprinter Letsile Tebogo, both of whom took gold at the Paris Olympics, were named ‘Athletes of the Year’ by World Athletics in Monaco on Sunday. Swedish pole-vaulter Armand Duplantis won the men’s field category after an unbeaten 2024, winning Olympic gold and setting a new world record of 6.26 metres. Ukrainian Yaroslava Mahuchikh …

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3 weeks, 1 day ago

Hassan, Tebogo named World Athletes of the Year

China Daily

MONTE CARLO - Dutch long-distance runner Sifan Hassan and Botswana's sprint sensation Letsile Tebogo were named World Athletes of the Year at the 2024 World Athletics Awards in Monaco on Sunday. In addition to the World Athlete of the Year title, Tebogo also took home the Men's Track Athlete of the Year award, while American star Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone was named …

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Sifan Hassan makes history as first Dutch person to be named best athlete in the world

NL Times

Sifan Hassan was chosen as the best athlete in the world for 2024 at the awards gala of the global association World Athletics in Monaco. The 31-year-old Hassan was the first woman ever to combine the 5,000 and 10,000 meter track distances with the maratho at the Games in Paris. The Dutch woman of Ethiopian descent won two world titles …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Sifan Hassan beats Femke Bol in Dutch athlete of the year election

NL Times

Sifan Hassan has been voted the best Dutch athlete of the year. The Olympic marathon champion beat Femke Bol and para-athlete Joël de Jong, the other two candidates on the shortlist. The 31-year-old long-distance specialist was the first woman ever to combine the 5,000 and 10,000-meter track distances with the marathon at the Olympic Games in Paris. At the Games …

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3 months ago

Femke Bol and Sifan Hassan nominated for European athlete of the year award

NL Times

Femke Bol and Sifan Hassan are contenders for the European Athlete of the Year award. The two high-level Dutch athletes are among the ten nominees who can be voted for online, the European Athletic Association reported. Bol has been chosen as the best European Athlete for the last two years and could become the first woman to win the award …

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4 months, 1 week ago

Lyles, Hassan bookend fabulous track and field program

China Daily

Sifan Hassan of the Netherlands celebrates after crossing the finish line to win the Paris 2024 Olympics women's marathon gold medal on Sunday. The closest and highest quality men's 100-meter race and a late-night pole vault world record lit up the first week, while Sifan Hassan's final-day marathon win, to cap a barely believable hat-trick of medals, was a fitting …

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4 months, 1 week ago

Noah Lyles and Sifan Hassan bookend a fabulous Paris Olympics programme

The Hindu

The Olympic athletics programme, highlighted by the shortest event and then the longest, saw performances of astonishing quality and spine-tingling drama, played out to a beautiful and unique purple backdrop that will forever mean Paris. The closest and highest quality men's 100 metres race and a late-night pole vault world record lit up the first week, while Sifan Hassan's final-day …

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4 months, 1 week ago

Hollywood ending for Sifan Hassan — and Paris Olympics

Raw Story

Sifan Hassan completed her mission impossible with a grueling women’s marathon win on the sun-baked streets of Paris on Sunday, as Tom Cruise is rumored to close the Olympic Games with a Hollywood ending. “It was so hot, but I was feeling OK. I’ve never pushed myself through to the finish line as I did today.” It was a sensational …

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4 months, 1 week ago

Sifan Hassan wins women’s marathon at Paris Olympics after trading elbows with Tigst Assefa

Associated Press

PARIS — Nobody will ever accuse Sifan Hassan of taking the easy route at the Olympics. Heading into the last 150 meters of her 10-day Olympics odyssey that spanned three events and 38 miles, the Netherlands’ runner traded elbows with Tigst Assefa of Ethiopia, and then sprinted by her to win the last track event of the Paris Games. So …

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4 months, 1 week ago

Sifan Hassan creates history in groundbreaking women's marathon at Paris 2024 Olympic Games

ABC

When Sifan Hassan claimed her second bronze medal on the track at these Paris 2024 Olympic Games, she was already looking forward. Hell for most, heaven for one, as Hassan created history on a historic day for women's running. With the women's race closing out the athletics program for the first time, Dutch runner Hassan became the first woman in …

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4 months, 1 week ago

Final finisher of women's marathon shows true Olympic spirit

LA Times

The original Olympic motto translates from Latin as “swifter, higher, stronger.” And those who live up to it are the ones who win gold medals and climb to the top step of the podium. “The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not to win,” he said, “but to take part.” Kinzang Lhamo, a 26-year-old in the Royal Bhutan …

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4 months, 1 week ago

Sifan Hassan puts on a fight to win marathon gold at Paris Olympics 2024

Al Jazeera

Once an Ethiopian asylum seeker, the Dutch distance running great won her third medal of the Paris Olympics in a thrilling finish to the women’s marathon. Sifan Hassan completed her mission impossible with a gruelling women’s marathon win on the sun-baked streets of Paris on the last day of the Olympics, giving the games a dramatic ending of her own. …

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4 months, 1 week ago

Sifan Hassan wins women’s marathon gold, completes astounding Olympic treble

New York Times

In the most dramatic and competitive Olympic marathon maybe ever, Sifan Hassan of the Netherlands officially became an athlete for the ages. The great cliche of marathon racing — “great” because it’s so true — is that “20 miles is halfway.” In so many races, the first 80 percent of the marathon is basically transportation, and then the real racing …

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4 months, 2 weeks ago

Sifan Hassan earns second medal of Paris Olympics with bronze in 10,000m, awaits marathon

New York Times

Sifan Hassan collected her second medal of the Paris Olympics, another bronze, this time in the women’s 10,000-meter final. That might sound like a disappointment for the Dutch runner, since she won this race three years ago in Tokyo, along with a gold medal in the 5,000 at those Games. It wasn’t, especially considering Hassan has a marathon to run …

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4 months, 2 weeks ago

Kenya's 'smiling assassin' Chebet wins Olympic 5,000m gold

New Indian Express

PARIS: Kenya's Beatrice Chebet produced a masterful display of tactical running to win gold in the Olympic women's 5,000m on Monday, ending defending champion Sifan Hassan's dream of a long-distance treble. Chebet -- nicknamed "the smiling assassin" -- bided her time before accelerating past compatriot Faith Kipyegon down the home straight to take gold in 14min 28.56sec at the Stade …

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4 months, 2 weeks ago

Hassan takes bronze in the 5,000, the first of her 3 Olympic distance races. Chebet wins gold

Associated Press

SAINT-DENIS, France — Sifan Hassan’s audacious attempt at a distance triple gold is over after just one race. That didn’t stop her from jumping on 5,000-meter gold medalist Beatrice Chebet of Kenya in a festive celebration for both women on Monday at the Paris Olympics. … My main goal is to complete all three distances.” Chebet clocked 14 minutes, 28.56 …

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4 months, 2 weeks ago

50 laps and then a marathon: Sifan Hassan chases impossible dream at Paris Olympics

The Independent

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

Paris 2024 Olympics: Defending Champion Sifan Hassan starts tough programme with strong 5,000m

The Hindu

Defending champion Sifan Hassan took second place in her Olympic 5,000 metres qualifying heat on Friday with a typical last-minute charge to overtake seven women in the home straight and finish a tenth of a second behind Kenya’s Faith Kipyegon. Hassan, 31, who took the distance running world by storm last year when she won the London Marathon on her …

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

Dutch runner Sifan Hassan trying to win the 5,000, 10,000 and marathon in Paris. ’It is very hard.’

The Hindu

Attempting to defend her 5,000 and 10,000-meter titles at the Olympics isn’t enough for Ethiopian-born Dutch runner Sifan Hassan. “I can’t tell you I’m going to get the gold medal in every event,” Ms. Hassan said Wednesday. “I’m curious what is going to happen,” MS. Hassan said. And how I’m going to recover.” Ms. Hassan could have run a fourth …

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

Dutch runner Sifan Hassan trying to win the 5,000, 10,000 and marathon in Paris. ‘It is very hard.’

Associated Press

PARIS — Attempting to defend her 5,000- and 10,000-meter titles at the Olympics isn’t enough for Ethiopian-born Dutch runner Sifan Hassan. “I can’t tell you I’m going to get the gold medal in every event,” Hassan said Wednesday. “It is very hard.” Hassan’s program will look The 5,000 heats on Friday and the final on Monday. But now she can …

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1 year, 3 months ago

Lyles, Richardson anchor U.S. sweep of relays at world championships

The Hindu

Now that they’ve got the baton thing down, the American sprinters can start brushing up on celebrations. Noah Lyles and Sha’Carri Richardson anchored their 4x100 teams to victories Saturday, giving the U.S. its first sweep of the short relays at world championships since 2007 and a boost of confidence heading into next year's Olympics. He put Jamaican Rohan Watson in …

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2024 Year in Sports, Athletics: Duplantis dominates, Neeraj-Arshad showdown in Paris Olympics, a slew of world records

Sifan Hassan facing tough competition in BBC World Sports Personality of the Year award

Olympic marathon champion Sifan Hassan voted Athlete of the Year

World Athletics: Olympic champions Hassan and Tebogo named ‘Athletes of the Year’

Hassan, Tebogo named World Athletes of the Year

Sifan Hassan makes history as first Dutch person to be named best athlete in the world

Sifan Hassan beats Femke Bol in Dutch athlete of the year election

Femke Bol and Sifan Hassan nominated for European athlete of the year award

Lyles, Hassan bookend fabulous track and field program

Noah Lyles and Sifan Hassan bookend a fabulous Paris Olympics programme

Hollywood ending for Sifan Hassan — and Paris Olympics

Sifan Hassan wins women’s marathon at Paris Olympics after trading elbows with Tigst Assefa

Sifan Hassan creates history in groundbreaking women's marathon at Paris 2024 Olympic Games

Final finisher of women's marathon shows true Olympic spirit

Sifan Hassan puts on a fight to win marathon gold at Paris Olympics 2024

Sifan Hassan wins women’s marathon gold, completes astounding Olympic treble

Sifan Hassan earns second medal of Paris Olympics with bronze in 10,000m, awaits marathon

Kenya's 'smiling assassin' Chebet wins Olympic 5,000m gold

Hassan takes bronze in the 5,000, the first of her 3 Olympic distance races. Chebet wins gold

50 laps and then a marathon: Sifan Hassan chases impossible dream at Paris Olympics

Paris 2024 Olympics: Defending Champion Sifan Hassan starts tough programme with strong 5,000m

Dutch runner Sifan Hassan trying to win the 5,000, 10,000 and marathon in Paris. ’It is very hard.’

Dutch runner Sifan Hassan trying to win the 5,000, 10,000 and marathon in Paris. ‘It is very hard.’

Lyles, Richardson anchor U.S. sweep of relays at world championships