The Remarkable Women's Marathon of Sifan Hassan in Olympics

Paris 2024 Athletics: All results, as Sifan Hassan wins women’s Marathon Gold in New Olympic Record.

Sifan Hassan has raced to victory in a new Olympic record in the Paris 2024 women’s marathon on Sunday 11 August. The Dutch athlete braved the undulating course that wound through some of the most iconic sights in Paris, finishing the race in 2:22:55. “I feel like I am dreaming," she said after the race. "I only see people on the TV who are Olympic champions. The marathon is something else, you know. When you do 42 kilometres in more than two hours and 20 minutes, then every single step you feel so hard and so painful. “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. “When I finished, I couldn’t stop celebrating. I was feeling dizzy. I wanted to lie down. Then I thought, ‘I am the Olympic champion. How is this possible?. The Remarkable Women's Marathon of Sifan Hassan. Hassan now has six Olympic medals to her name, with three won at Paris 2024 and three at Tokyo 2020. Her medal haul now includes gold in the 5000m and 10,000m won in the last edition of the Games in Japan's capital and now, the Olympic title over the mythical marathon distance in Paris.

“The moment I started to feel good at 20km, I felt so good. 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, they’re going to go hard'.” In the end, it was Hassan who went hardest, writing another chapter in the often astonishing tale of an athlete who dares to go where so many would not even consider possible. Paris 2024 athletics: Women’s marathon podium Gold: Sifan Hassan (Netherlands) Silver: Tigst Assefa (Ethiopia) Bronze: Hellen Obiri (Kenya)