On the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, Dutch distance runner Sifan Hassan made historical past by successful three particular person medals throughout three totally different athletics disciplines, two golds and one bronze. She gained golds within the girls’s 5,000m and 10,000m occasions, and bronze within the girls’s 1,500m behind Religion Kipyegon and Laura Muir. Properly apparently three occasions didn’t maintain Hassan busy sufficient, elevating the stakes for Paris 2024 by competing within the 1,500m, 5,000m, 10,000m and the marathon—an unprecedented Olympic quadruple.
In line with an announcement from the Dutch Olympic group, Hassan is entered in all 4 disciplines and can race a complete of seven instances over 10 days. Her most difficult stretch will likely be from Aug. 8-11, when she is scheduled to race the 1,500m semi-finals and finals, the ladies’s 10,000m closing, and the ladies’s marathon on the ultimate day of Paris 2024 (Aug. 11); all on consecutive days.
Hassan is the one athlete in Olympic historical past to have medaled within the 1,500m, 5,000m and 10,000m occasions at a single Video games. She can also be the primary to qualify for and try this quadruple-distance feat.
Final yr, Hassan expanded her repertoire by including the marathon to her record of racing disciplines. She gained her marathon debut on the 2023 London Marathon and went on to clock the second-fastest girls’s marathon time in historical past (2:13:44) to win the 2023 Chicago Marathon.
Hassan’s Paris 2024 schedule is bold. Though she is likely one of the best distance runners in historical past, replicating her Tokyo success will likely be extremely difficult. The ladies’s 1,500m and 5,000m are two of the deepest occasions proper now, that includes formidable rivals like defending world champion Religion Kipyegon, Laura Muir (Olympic silver medallist), Australia’s Jessica Hull (2,000m world file holder), Ethiopia’s Gudaf Tsegay (5,000m world file holder), and Kenya’s Beatrice Chebet (world XC champion). Hassan’s greatest possibilities for a medal lie within the girls’s 10,000m closing and the marathon, which come on the finish of the Olympic schedule.
Right here’s a take a look at Hassan’s Olympic schedule:
August 2: 5,000m, Spherical 1 – 6:10 p.m.
August 5: 5,000m, Ultimate – 9:10 p.m.
August 6: 1,500m, Spherical 1 – 10:05 a.m.
August 8: 1,500m, Semifinal – 7:35 p.m.
August 9: 10,000m Ultimate – 8:55 p.m.
August 10: 1,500m, Ultimate – 8:25 p.m.
August 11: Marathon – 8:00 a.m.
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Solely two athletes have gained 4 medals at a single Olympic Video games: U.S. dash icon Florence Griffith-Joyner, who gained three golds and one silver (within the 4x400m relay) at Seoul in 1988, and Fanny Blankers-Koen of the Netherlands, who gained 4 golds on the 1948 Olympics in London within the 100m, 200m, 4x100m relay, and 80m hurdles.
