On the ultimate day of the Paris 2024 Olympic Video games, Sifan Hassan of the Netherlands made historical past within the ladies’s marathon, successful gold with a brand new Olympic file of two:22:55. That is Hassan’s third medal at these Video games, including to the 2 bronze medals she received within the ladies’s 5,000m and 10,000m.
Hassan was the one athlete within the discipline who had already raced 20 kilometres earlier than Sunday’s marathon, however that didn’t appear to be an issue for the Dutch distance runner. Hassan quietly stayed in the back of the pack within the early levels of the race and even discovered herself trailing the lead group on the 29km mark within 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 within 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 profession to assert bronze in 2:23:10. This was Obiri’s third Olympic medal, and her first within the marathon (she beforehand received two silvers within the ladies’s 5,000m).
Hassan will not be solely the primary feminine athlete to tackle the troublesome Olympic distance triple—5,000m, 10,000m and marathon—but additionally the primary athlete to medal in all three occasions at a single Olympic Video games.
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