Hassan Grabs Third Medal at Paris Olympics with Women’s Marathon Victory

That is Olivia Miller’s story for day 11, on which the ultimate occasion was the ladies’s marathon, which was a spectacular occasion. Held on a course that ran from the close to middle of Paris to Versailles and again, with a mile-long hill, a troublesome downhill, and a 600m uphill with a ten % grade, the race got here right down to a remaining 195 meters, and Oliva tells the story beneath: 

Hassan Grabs Third Medal at Paris Olympics with Girls’s Marathon Victory, by Olivia Miller 

Ethiopia’s Tigst Assefa and the Netherlands’s Sifan Hassan had been shoulder-to-shoulder as they approached the final 200m of the ladies’s marathon. After buying and selling elbows, it was Hassan who was capable of draw back, only a few strides forward of Assefa. Hassan moved cautiously, trying again to really feel the place the Ethiopian runner was in relation to her in an all-out battle for gold. Ultimately, it was Hassan, within the brightly coloured orange uniform of the Netherlands, who crossed the end line first. She celebrated, collapsing to the bottom, taking all of it in below the recent Paris solar.

Hassan stated this marathon felt completely different.

“Once I completed, the entire second was a launch. It’s unbelievable. I’ve by no means skilled something like that. Even the opposite marathons I’ve run weren’t near this.

She completed in 2:22.55, breaking the earlier Olympic file that was set by Tiki Gelana in London.

She admitted it didn’t really feel actual.

“I really feel like I’m dreaming. I solely see individuals on the TV who’re Olympic champions. The marathon is one thing else, you understand. Whenever you do 42 kilometers in additional than two hours and 20 minutes, then each single step you’re feeling (is) so exhausting and so painful.

Asseyfa was simply seconds behind Hassan with 2:22.58. Hellen Obiri of Kenya took third crossing the road at 2:23.10. Defending Olympic champion Peres Jepchirchir completed in fifteenth after starting to fade on the 35km mark.

This was Hassan’s third race of the Paris Olympics, having competed and incomes bronze in each the ladies’s 5,000m and 10,000m which happened Aug 9, giving her just below two days to get well.

Hassan stated that throughout the race, she was regretting her option to run all three occasions.

“From the start to the tip, it was so exhausting. Each step of the best way. I used to be pondering, ‘Why did I try this? What’s improper with me?’ If I hadn’t completed it, I might really feel so snug right here.”

That is Hassan’s sixth Olympic medal. Her gold within the marathon makes her the one lady to have gained an Olympic gold medal in all three distance races, the 5,000m, 10,000m and Marathon.