That is half 1 of three of our unique interview with Sifan Hassan
Sifan Hassan is without doubt one of the hottest and engaging athletes on this planet! In all of our social media for Paris 2024, Sifan Hassan was hottest world athlete from Paris 2024!
Sifan Hassan and her household moved to the Netherlands in 2008 at 15 as a political refugee from Ethiopia. Sifan grew to become a citizen of the Netherlands in 2013. This author first noticed her on the 2014 European Athletics Out of doors Championships in August 2014 in Zurich. On the EAC, Sifan took bronze within the 5,000m and gained the 1,500m! It was at all times enjoyable watching Sifan race and her emotional response to her racing and apparent enjoyment of the game!
Sifan has at all times raced over the spectrum. Early in her profession, she ran from 800 meters to the half marathon to cross nation. In December 2013, Sifan Hassan took gold within the European Athletics U 23 Cross Nation champs, plus helped the Netherlands crew take the bronze medal! That was the primary time she represented her new nation, the Netherlands.
Sifan owned the world document within the mile from 2019 to 2023 (4:12). She owned the ten,000m world document for 2 days and nonetheless owns the World document for the hour run (18,930 meters is 11.7623 miles), which is brutal!
When it comes to European information? Sifan Hassan holds European information at 1,500m, 3,000m, 5,000m, 10,000m, half marathon and marathon!
Sifan Hassan is a tremendously gifted athlete who works exhausting, laughs, and races with abandon. On RunBlogRun’s world viewers, she is one among our hottest, judging by social media response, and the article reads.
We reached out to Brett Holts at NIKE sports activities advertising and requested if he might assist us attain Sifan Hassan. Not solely did Brett Holts get it executed, however the velocity with which the interview got here again was unbelievable!
We hope you get pleasure from these insights into Sifan Hassan, who simply gained bronze on the 5,000 meters, 10,000 meters, after which gold within the marathon! These are her fourth, fifth, and sixth Olympic medals.
Cross-Nation
1. RunBlogRun: Sifan, what have been your first experiences in cross nation like? What’s your greatest lesson from working cross nation? What’s the finest racing tip you may give younger runners about cross nation?
Sifan Hassan: I’ve at all times liked cross-country. I grew up within the mountains and truly most get pleasure from working on uneven terrain.
Cross nation taught me a lot by way of persistence and placement in racing. I really like the liberty of motion in cross nation, which you additionally
discover in highway working. In observe races, everyone’s afraid of working too exhausting or working too far on an outdoor lane. I don’t like this, so I at all times keep within the again. I really feel like cross-country offers you a lot extra choices.
I like to recommend beginning off slowly and pacing your self properly. I keep in mind beginning off means too quick as soon as, and it felt extra sophisticated than a marathon.
2. RunBlogRun: Will we see you race extra cross-country races?
Sifan Hassan: I’d completely like to! I like the thought of together with cross-country races within the build-up to a marathon. The schedule makes it exhausting, however I’d love to incorporate extra subsequent season.
Tokyo 2020
3. RunBlogRun; In Tokyo, within the heats, you fell within the 1,500m, and I keep in mind you getting up and sprinting to catch up, transferring to the ultimate; inform us about that race?
Sifan Hassan: It was one of the vital emotional moments of my profession. The Olympics are the very best level in our sport, one thing I’ve labored so exhausting for. Considering I would lose my likelihood at a medal due to a fall made me get again up instantly and focus much more on what I wished to perform. It additionally gave me the push I wanted for the 5000m closing later that night.
Budapest 2023
4. RunBlogRun: How’s the autumn within the homestretch of the ten,000m impacted you?
Sifan Hassan: After all, I’d have most well-liked to not fall. But when I can put it this fashion, I don’t suppose I wanted the medal to show one thing to myself. Making it that far into the race was an achievement in itself, and although the autumn was unlucky, I used to be nonetheless pleased with my efficiency. Seeing Femke (Bol) fall within the relay in a while additionally helped put issues into perspective for each of us, I believe.
Budapest, Hungary
August 19-27, 2023, photograph by Kevin Morris
Look ahead to Half 2 tomorrow!
