Sifan Hassan

 ( 1993 Births ) 

Hassan became a Dutch citizen in November 2013, too late for competing at the 2013 World Championships, and the following month she made her first appearance for the Netherlands. 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. She also won the Warandeloop and Lotto Cross Cup Brussels races that winter.

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, then broke the Dutch indoor record in the 1500 m with a time of 4:05.34 minutes at the Birmingham Indoor Grand Prix. She ran her first sub-4 minute 1500 m in finishing fifth at the Prefontaine Classic in a time of 3:59.38. On 5 July, Hassan won the 1500 m at the Paris Diamond League and set another new personal best of 3:57.00. She followed it by winning at the Glasgow Grand Prix, holding off Abeba Aregawi. At the 2014 European Championships, Hassan won gold in the 1500 m and silver in the 5000 m. She ended her season by winning at the 2014 IAAF Continental Cup.

She finished fifth in the 1500 m at the 2017 World Athletics Championships and won the bronze medal in the 5000 metres event.

At the 2018 European Championships, she won a gold medal in the 5000 m with the time 14:46:12, setting a new championships record.

On 16 September, she broke the European record for the half marathon with a time of 65:15, winning the Copenhagen Half Marathon. European Athletics website Retrieved on 2 October 2018.

She was the double 2019 Diamond League champion, winning both the 1500 and 5000 metres Trophies.

On 28 September, she became the 2019 World Champion in the 10,000 metres in her second race for that distance. Her first race at the event was in Stanford in a time of 31:18.12, just fast enough to achieve the qualifying standard for the World Championships. The winning time of 30:17.62 was the best time of the year on the track. Alina Reh (Germany) led the field after 3000 m in 9:29.69. The front runner reached the halfway point in 15:32.70. Letesenbet Gidey finished in 30:21.23, with Agnes Tirop (Kenya) coming in third place in 30:25.50. The second half of the run was covered in 14:45. Hassan also won the 1500 metres race with a time of 3:51.95 (sixth place on the 1500 m all-time list), setting new championship and European records. The second-placed finisher was Faith Kipyegon in 3:54.22, a new Kenyan national record, and the third place went to Gudaf Tsegay with 3:54.38.

On 10 October, Hassan set a European record for the women's 10,000 metres in a time of 29:36.67, breaking the best set by Great Britain's Paula Radcliffe in 2002 by more than 24 seconds.

On 6 June 2021, she bettered her performance at the event to set a world record of 29:06.82 in Hengelo, beating the 2016 record of Ethiopian Almaz Ayana by more than 10 seconds. Hassan lost the record two days later, however, when Ethiopia's Letesenbet Gidey achieved a time of 29:01.03 at the same stadium. On 10 June, Hassan won the 1500 metres at the Golden Gala in a then world-leading time of 3:53.63. She then finished second at the Herculis in a time of 3:53.60, finishing behind Faith Kipyegon who ran a new national record of 3:51.07.

Hassan won gold in the 5000 metres and 10,000 metres at the delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games. She also won bronze in the 1500 metres. She became the only athlete ever to medal in the 1500, 5000, and 10,000 metres events at the same Olympics. Her 5000 m winning time was 14:36.79, ahead of Hellen Obiri from Kenya with 14:38.36, while Gudaf Tsegay won a bronze medal with a time of 14:38.87. Her gold medal win made her the first Dutch woman with an Olympic athletics medal in a long-distance event. She was the first non-Kenyan or Ethiopian athlete to win the event since Gabriela Szabo won in the 2000 Sydney Olympics.

On 3 June, just 41 days after her marathon debut, Hassan made her return to outdoor track at the FBK Games in Hengelo, Netherlands. She won both the 10,000 metres and the 1500 metres in 29:37.80 and 3:58.12, respectively. On 23 July, she ran a new area record over 5000 metres of 14:13.42 to finish third at the London Diamond League.

At the 2023 World Championships, Hassan was leading the 10,000 metres until the final 100 m when she stumbled and fell after getting tangled with Gudaf Tsegay, she ended up finishing 11th. Hassan came back to win bronze in the 1500 metres and silver in the 5000 metres.

On 8 October, Sifan Hassan won the Chicago Marathon with a time of 2:13:44. This was a new course record for the Chicago Marathon as well as the second-fastest women's marathon of all time.

At the Paris 2024 Olympics, Hassan secured the bronze medal in the women's 5,000 metres. Initially upgraded to silver following Faith Kipyegon's disqualification for obstruction, Hassan was later returned to bronze after Kipyegon was reinstated following Kenya's successful appeal.

Hassan also won bronze in the 10,000 metres then, on the final day, won gold in the women's marathon after sprinting the final 200 metres to beat Ethiopian Tigst Assefa by three seconds. With this gold medal she became the first woman to win Olympic gold in the marathon, 5,000 metres and 10,000 metres. She also became the first Olympic athlete male or female to win medals in these three events at the same Games since Czechoslovak Emil Zátopek in 1952.

In December 2024, Hassan was named World Athletics Female Athlete of the Year. She was the first Dutchwoman to win the award.

Beginning in 2017, Hassan moved to the United States to be coached by Alberto Salazar at the Nike Oregon Project.

In July 2018, the Nike Oregon Project hired Tim Rowberry as a coach—primarily to oversee the training of Sifan Hassan and her fellow team member Yomif Kejelcha—while Salazar remained the head coach over all athletes in the Nike Oregon Project.

In October 2019 Salazar began serving a four-year ban from athletics for doping violations dating from before he started coaching Hassan. According to court rulings which upheld Salazar's ban, there was "no evidence put before the CAS as to any effect on athletes competing at the elite level within the Nike Oregon Project."

The aftermath of Salazar's ban caused the Nike Oregon Project to dissolve leading Hassan and Kejelcha to form a new training group under coach Tim Rowberry.

Hassan's current coach is Tim Rowberry. After her partnership with Rowberry began in 2018, she has set new personal best times in the 1500m, 3k, 5k, 10k, half marathon, and marathon. Hassan's training partner Yomif Kejelcha remained in the group until his departure to Adidas in 2021.