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Olympic marathon champion Sifan Hassan voted Athlete of the Year

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 …

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 …

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

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 …

World Athletics Championships 2023: Top three contenders in women’s 10,000m

The World Athletics Championships 2023 will be held in Budapest from August 19 to 27. PB - 29:06.82s in FBK Stadium, Hengelo June 6, 2021 SB - 29:37.80s in FBK Stadium, Hengelo June 3, 2023 Gudaf Tsegay FILE PHOTO: Gudaf Tsegay of Ethiopia. PB - 29:29.73s - Estadio Enrique Lopez Cuenca, Nerja June 23, 2023 SB - 29:29.73s - Estadio …

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World Athletics Championships 2023: Top three contenders in women’s 5000m

The World Athletics Championships 2023 will be held in Budapest from August 19 to 27. Here are the top three contenders for the gold medal in women’s 5000m in the Hungarian capital: Faith Kipyegon A week after she set the 1500m world record in Florence, Faith Kipyegon etched her name into the record books for the 5000m, with a timing …

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With no fans to cheer them on, four-time Olympic champion Mo Farah and Sifan Hassan both broke the rarely run one-hour world record on Friday at the Memorial Van Damme meeting. In an empty stadium because of the coronavirus crisis, Hassan first improved the previous women’s mark of 18.517 kilometers set by Ethiopia’s Dire Tune at the Ostrava Golden Spike …

Mo Farah broke Haile Gebrselassie’s 13-year-old record of 21,285 kilometers on his return to the track. Farah, who ran with his training partner Bashir Abdi, established a new world mark of 21.330 kilometers. With no fans to cheer them on, four-time Olympic champion Mo Farah and Sifan Hassan both broke the rarely run one-hour world record on Friday at the …

Tokyo Olympics 2020: Kenya's 1500m champion Faith Kipyegon ready for title defence after long absence

Kipyegon returned to competition this season after taking nearly two years off for the birth of her daughter last year and has recovered from an adductor injury picked up in June. Eldoret: Kenya’s Olympic 1,500 metres champion Faith Kipyegon said on Thursday that winning a silver medal at this year’s World Championships in Doha after having a baby had motivated …

World Athletics Championships 2019: Sifan Hassan leads round of golden doubles, calls herself 'clean athlete'

Sifan Hassan made light of the doping ban handed to her coach Alberto Salazar to complete a historic 1,500/10,000 metres double at the World Athletics Championships on Saturday. Doha: Sifan Hassan made light of the doping ban handed to her coach Alberto Salazar to complete a historic 1,500/10,000 metres double at the World Athletics Championships on Saturday as a host …

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