2024 Paris Olympics: Sifan Hassan Wins Women's Marathon

On Sunday, Dutch Sifan Hassan made history by winning the gold medal of the Women's Marathon. 

She set a new Olympic record time of two hours, 22 minutes and 55 seconds. 

Ethiopia’s Tigst Assefa came in second, and Kenya’s Hellen Obiri won bronze.

Hassan said after the race: “When I finished, the whole moment was a release,”  “It is unbelievable. I have never experienced anything like that. Even the other marathons I have run were not close to this.”

Hassan won two bronze medals on the track in each of the women’s 5,000 and 10,000 meter races. 

She last raced in the 10,000 meters on Friday.

Hassan is the first athlete to win an Olympic medal in all three distance events at a single Olympics since 1952. 

“The moment I started to feel good at 20 kilometers, I felt so good,” she said. “Then I knew I wanted gold. But everybody else was fresh, and all I was thinking was, ‘When are they going to break? They’re going to go hard.’”