On the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, Dutch distance runner Sifan Hassan made historical past by profitable three particular person medals throughout three completely different athletics disciplines, two golds and one bronze. She gained golds within the ladies’s 5,000m and 10,000m occasions, and bronze within the ladies’s 1,500m behind Religion Kipyegon and Laura Muir. Effectively 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 response to 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 shall be from Aug. 8-11, when she is scheduled to race the 1,500m semi-finals and finals, the ladies’s 10,000m remaining, 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 checklist of racing disciplines. She gained her marathon debut on the 2023 London Marathon and went on to clock the second-fastest ladies’s marathon time in historical past (2:13:44) to win the 2023 Chicago Marathon.
Hassan’s Paris 2024 schedule is formidable. Though she is without doubt one of the best distance runners in historical past, replicating her Tokyo success shall 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 document holder), Ethiopia’s Gudaf Tsegay (5,000m world document holder), and Kenya’s Beatrice Chebet (world XC champion). Hassan’s finest probabilities for a medal lie within the ladies’s 10,000m remaining and the marathon, which come on the finish of the Olympic schedule.
Right here’s a have a look at Hassan’s Olympic schedule:
August 2: 5,000m, Spherical 1 – 6:10 p.m.
August 5: 5,000m, Closing – 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 Closing – 8:55 p.m.
August 10: 1,500m, Closing – 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.
