Sifan Hassan

Sifan Hassan
Sifan Hassan at the European Championships in Berlin 2018
nation	Netherlands
birthday	1st January 1993 (age 27)
place of birth	Nazret ,  Ethiopia
size	170 cm
Weight	49 kg
Career
discipline	Medium and long distance running
society	Eindhoven Atletiek
Trainer	Alberto Salazar
National squad	since 2013
status	active
Medal table
World championships 2 × 0 × 2 × European championships 2 × 2 × 0 × Indoor world championships 1 × 1 × 1 × European Indoor Championships 1 × 0 × 0 × European Cross Country Championships 2 × 0 × 0 ×
World championships bronze Beijing 2015 1500 m bronze London 2017 5000 m gold Doha 2019 1500 m gold Doha 2019 10,000 m  European championships gold Zurich 2014 1500 m silver Zurich 2014 5000 m silver Amsterdam 2016 1500 m gold Berlin 2018 5000 m  Indoor world championships gold Portland 2016 1500 m silver Birmingham 2018 3000 m bronze Birmingham 2018 1500 m  European Indoor Championships gold Prague 2015 1500 m  European Cross Country Championships gold Hyères 2015 8 kilometers gold Belgrade 2013 6 km (U23)
last change: September 28, 2019

Sifan Hassan (born January 1, 1993 in Nazret ) is a Dutch athlete of Ethiopian origin who competes in medium and long-distance running .

Athletic career

Hassan came to the Netherlands as a refugee from Ethiopia at the age of 15. After stations in Zuidlaren and Leeuwarden, she moved to Eindhoven, where she began to train with Eindhoven Atletiek under Aiduna Aitnafa . After initial success at smaller meetings, she made her first starts in the Diamond League in 2013 . At the Athletissima in Lausanne she was second over 1500 meters, at the DN Galan in Stockholm third over 3000 meters.

Hassan took Dutch citizenship on November 19, 2013 . In her first competition for the Netherlands, she won the U23 race at the European Cross Country Championships in Belgrade at the beginning of December .

In the 2014 season, Hassan established himself among the world's best. At the indoor world championships in Sopot , she finished fifth in the 3000 meter run. In May, they improved the Shanghai Golden Grand Prix the nearly 27-year-old Dutch record of Elly van Hulst in the 1500-meter run 2.44 seconds 4: 01,19 min. Just two weeks later, she was the first Dutch woman to break the 4-minute mark at the same distance at the Prefontaine Classic in Eugene with 3: 59.38 minutes. In July, when she won the Areva meeting in Paris, she finished at the top of the world's best of the year with a time of 3: 57.00 minutes. At the European Championships in Zurich she claimed against the Mitfavoritin Abeba Aregawi from Sweden and ran 4: 04.18 minutes to win the title. In addition, she won the silver medal in the 5000 meter run . At the Van Damme Memorial in Brussels, she improved the Dutch record in the 3000-meter run to 8: 29.38 minutes.

At the end of January 2015, Hassan improved the Dutch indoor record over 1500 meters in Karlsruhe to 4: 02.57 min. In February she achieved a further increase to 4: 00.46 min at the XL Galan in Stockholm. So she traveled as the clear favorite to the European Indoor Championships in Prague , where she ran from the top in 4: 09.04 minutes to a safe victory. She opened the outdoor season with a second place in the 1,500 meter race at the Qatar Athletic Super Grand Prix in Doha. At the FBK Games in Hengelo, she won over 1000 meters in 2: 34.68 minutes, the fastest time that had been achieved over this distance in the last six years. Later in the season, she won, among other things, the 1,500-meter runs at the British Athletics Birmingham Grand Prix and at the Athletissima in Lausanne. In July she increased her best time over 1500 meters at the Herculis in Monaco to 3: 56.05 min. However, this performance was only enough for second place, as the Ethiopian Genzebe Dibaba set a world record in the same race with 3: 50.07 minutes. Over the same distance she won the bronze medal at the World Championships in Beijing behind Dibaba and the Kenyan Faith Kipyegon . Hassan closed the season in December with the victory at the European Cross Country Championships in Hyères .

At the 2016 World Indoor Championships in Portland , Hassan won the 1500 meters in 4: 04.96 minutes ahead of the Ethiopians Dawit Seyaum and Gudaf Tsegay . At the European Championships in Amsterdam she came second behind the winner Angelika Cichocka from Poland. However, she missed another medal win at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro and finished fifth in the 1,500 meter run. She also competed over 800 meters, but could not qualify for the final at this distance.

Hassan has been training under Alberto Salazar as part of the Nike Oregon Project since the end of 2016 . In 2017 she traveled as the world's best of the year over 1500 meters to the 2017 World Championships in London , but missed a medal over this route as fifth. In the further course of the world championships, she also competed over 5000 meters and was able to secure the bronze medal there. In March 2018, Hassan started twice again at the World Indoor Championships in Birmingham , this time she won silver over 3000 meters and bronze in the 1500 meter run. At the European Championships in Berlin in 2018 , she won the gold medal in the 5000 meter run. Four weeks earlier, at the Europa League meeting in Rabat , she had improved the European record to 14: 22.34 minutes. Hassan set another European record on September 16, 2018 in Copenhagen over the half marathon distance of 1:05:15 h.

In February 2019, Hassan won the 5km Herculis race in Monaco and, with her winning time of 14:44 minutes, set the first world record in the 5km road race recognized by the IAAF. In April she won the Berlin half marathon in a track record time of 1:05:45 h. In July, at the Herculis in Monaco , she improved the world record for miles set by the Russian Swetlana Masterkova to 4: 12.33 minutes and secured the 1500 and 5000 meter titles in the IAAF Diamond League overall standings. At the World Championships in Doha , she won only her second race over 10,000 meters with a new personal best of 30: 17.62 minutes. A week later she won the 1500 meters in 3: 51.95 minutes, a new European record, also gold.

In 2015 Hassan became Dutch indoor champion in the 1500 meter run and in 2016 over 800 meters.

Personal bests

• 800 meters : 1: 56.81 min, July 21, 2017 in Monaco
  • 800 meters (hall): 2: 02.62 min, February 28, 2016 in Apeldoorn
• 1000 meters: 2: 34.68 min, May 24, 2015 in Hengelo ( Dutch record )
• 1500 meters : 3: 51.95 min, October 5, 2019 in Doha ( European record )
  • 1500 meters (hall): 4: 00.46 min, February 19, 2015 in Stockholm ( Dutch record )
• 1 mile: 4: 12.33 min, July 12, 2019 in Monaco ( world record )
  • 1 mile (hall): 4: 19.89 min, February 11, 2017 in New York City ( Dutch record )
• 3000 meters: 8: 18.49 min, June 30, 2019 in Palo Alto ( European record )
  • 3000 meters (hall): 8: 30.76 min, February 18, 2017 in Birmingham ( Dutch record )
• 5000 meters : 14: 22.12 min, July 21, 2019 in London ( European record )
• 10,000 meters : 30: 17.62 min, September 28, 2019 in Doha
• 5 km road run: 14:44 min, February 17, 2019 in Monaco ( world record )
• Half marathon : 1:05:15 h, September 16, 2018 in Copenhagen ( European record )

Web links

Commons : Sifan Hassan  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Sifan Hassan in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Sifan Hassan in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sifan Hassen ( English ) Global Sports Communication. Archived from the original on March 1, 2014. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved August 22, 2014. 
2. ↑ Dick Leseman: Bijna-Nederlandse Sifan Hassan naar de wereldtop ( Dutch ) Atletiek Week. July 18, 2013. Retrieved August 22, 2014.
3. ↑ Sifan Hassen ( English ) European Athletics. Retrieved August 22, 2014.
4. ↑ Sifan Hassan duikt minutes onder 4 op 1500 ( Dutch ) De Telegraaf. June 1, 2014. Retrieved September 7, 2014.
5. ^ Phil Minshull: Hassan upsets the formbook with record-breaking run in Paris - IAAF Diamond League ( English ) IAAF. July 5, 2014. Retrieved September 7, 2014.
6. ↑ Mercy Cherono pips Genzebe Dibaba to win diamond trophy in Brussels ( English ) Athletics Africa. September 6, 2014. Accessed March 8, 2015.
7. ^ Phil Minshull: Hassan the star on a night of six world leads in Karlsruhe ( English ) IAAF. January 31, 2015. Accessed March 8, 2015.
8. ↑ Hassan is digging for more gold ( English ) European Athletics. February 20, 2015. Retrieved March 8, 2015.
9. ↑ Cors van den Brink: Schippers storms to Dutch 100m record of 10.94 in Hengelo ( English ) IAAF. May 24, 2015. Retrieved May 25, 2015.
10. ↑ Jon Mulkeen: Dibaba breaks 1500m world record in Monaco with 3: 50.07 - IAAF Diamond League ( English ) IAAF. July 17, 2015. Retrieved July 18, 2015.
11. ↑ Jon Mulkeen: Report: women's 1500m final - IAAF World Championships, Beijing ( English ) IAAF. August 25, 2015. Retrieved August 25, 2015.
12. ↑ Cathal Dennehy: Report: Women's 1500 meters final - IAAF World Indoor Championships Portland 2016 ( English ) IAAF. March 20, 2016. Retrieved March 20, 2016.
13. ↑ Atlete Hassan kiest voor omstreden topcoach Salazar. In: nos.nl. December 6, 2016, accessed March 6, 2018 (Dutch). 
14. ↑ Sifan Hassan runs a European record over 5000 m. In: run.hwinter.de , July 15, 2018.
15. ↑ Outstanding half marathon - Sifan Hassan runs a European record. In: Leichtathletik.de , September 16, 2018.
16. ^ Nicole Jeffery: Wanders and Hassan set world 5km records in Monaco ( English ) IAAF. February 17, 2019. Retrieved April 7, 2019.