Sifan Hassan, the RunBlogRun Interview , speaks on Cross Country, Tokyo, Paris, Part 1/3

That is half 1 of three of our unique interview with Sifan Hassan

Sifan Hassan is among the hottest and interesting 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 received 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 staff take the bronze medal! That was the primary time she represented her new nation, the Netherlands. 

Sifan owned the world report within the mile from 2019 to 2023 (4:12). She owned the ten,000m world report for 2 days and nonetheless owns the World report for the hour run (18,930 meters is 11.7623 miles), which is brutal! 

By way of 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 arduous, laughs, and races with abandon. On RunBlogRun’s world viewers, she is considered one of our hottest, judging by social media response, and the article reads. 

We reached out to Brett Holts at NIKE sports activities advertising and marketing 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 take pleasure in these insights into Sifan Hassan, who simply received 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 had 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 really most take pleasure in working on uneven terrain.

Cross nation taught me a lot when it comes to persistence and placement in racing. I really like the liberty of motion in cross nation, which you alsofind in highway working. In monitor races, everyone’s afraid of working too arduous or working too far on an out of doors 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 nicely. 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 might completely like to! I like the thought of together with cross-country races within the build-up to a marathon. The schedule makes it arduous, however I might 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, shifting to the ultimate; inform us about that race?

Sifan Hassan: It was one of the crucial emotional moments of my profession. The Olympics are the best level in our sport, one thing I’ve labored so arduous for. Pondering 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 needed 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: In fact, I might have most popular to not fall. But when I can put it this manner, 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 proud of my efficiency. Seeing Femke (Bol) fall within the relay in a while additionally helped put issues into perspective for each of us, I believe.

Look ahead to Half 2 tomorrow! 

Larry Eder has had a 52-year involvement within the sport of athletics. Larry has skilled the game as an athlete, coach, journal writer, and now, journalist and blogger. His first article, on Don Bowden, America’s first sub-4 minute miler, was revealed in RW in 1983. Larry has revealed a number of magazines on athletics, from American Athletics to the U.S. model of Spikes journal. He at the moment manages the content material and advertising and marketing improvement of the RunningNetwork, The Shoe Addicts, and RunBlogRun. Of RunBlogRun, his every day pilgrimage with the game, Larry says: “I’ve to confess, I really like touring to distant meets, writing concerning the sport I really like, and the athletes I respect, for my readers at runblogrun.com, essentially the most of something I’ve ever executed, besides, possibly working itself.” Additionally does some updates for BBC Sports activities at key occasions, which he really enjoys. Theme tune: Greg Allman, ” I am no Angel.”

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