Sifan Hassan

Sifan Hassan is an Ethiopian-Dutch middle- and long-distance runner, born in January 1993 in Adama and raised in the Oromia countryside before she arrived in the Netherlands as a refugee at the age of 15 in 2008; she became a Dutch citizen in 2013. At the 2020 Tokyo Olympics she won gold in both the 5,000 metres and 10,000 metres and a bronze in the 1,500 metres, the only athlete in Olympic history to win medals across a middle-distance event and both long-distance races at a single Games. At Paris in 2024 she took bronze in the 5,000 m and 10,000 m and gold in the marathon, becoming the only woman to win Olympic gold in the 5,000 m, 10,000 m and marathon. In 2019 she won the 1,500 m and 10,000 m at the World Championships, and she won the 2023 London Marathon on her debut over the distance. She has held the world record for the one hour run since 2020 and holds six European records.