Sifan Hassan

It is a triumph of science and engineering, but so are cars, scooters and bicycles, all of which can outrun a human with ease. But that was never the point

Kenya's Faith Kipyegon retained her Olympic title in the women's 1,500 metres at the Olympic Stadium on Friday, breaking the Olympic record as she denied Dutchwoman sifan hassan her dream of winning an unprecedented Olympic treble.

Dutch long-distance runner sifan hassan broke the women's 10,000 metres world record on Sunday, clocking 29 minutes and 6.82 seconds in a Continental Tour meet, World Athletics said.

Bahrain's Kalkidan Gezahegne won the Giants Geneva 10K in 29 minutes 38 seconds on Sunday to take five seconds off the women's world record for a 10km road race when men are also competing.

sifan hassan staged a remarkable rally to win the women's London Marathon on Sunday in what was the double Olympic track champion's debut race over the distance.

Double Olympic champion sifan hassan says she learnt a valuable lesson at the World Championships after failing to win a medal in both the women's 5,000 metres and 10,000 metres, which she had won at the Tokyo Olympics last year.

Dutch track star sifan hassan, who won double Olympic gold in the 5,000 and 10,000m at the Tokyo Games, said Tuesday she was thinking about stepping up to the marathon.

sifan hassan's endurance gamble at the Paris Games finally paid off after she sprinted away for Olympic marathon gold in the French capital on Sunday. The Ethiopian-born Dutch athlete came into the marathon on the back of two bronze medals won in the 5,000m and 10,000m in an astonishing bid for podium placings in three events. And Hassan did not disappoint, holding off Ethiopian Tigst Assefa for victory in an Olympic record of 2hr 22min 55sec.

sifan hassan dominated the field but came up short in her quest to break the 5,000 metres world record on Friday in her first meet since her star turn at the Tokyo Olympics.

Athletics coach Alberto Salazar's four-year suspension for a series of doping violations was Thursday upheld by the Court of Arbitration for Sport. The 63-year-old former head of the now-shuttered Nike Oregon Project, best known for coaching Britain's four-time Olympic champion Mo Farah, was suspended in 2019.

A 45-year-old man died while travelling home after taking part in Sunday's London Marathon, race organisers said in a statement.

sifan hassan of the Netherlands won the Olympic women's 5,000 metres gold medal on Monday. Hellen Obiri of Kenya took the silver and Ethiopian Gudaf Tsegay picked up bronze.

In-form Dutch runner sifan hassan will miss Saturday's World Athletics Half-Marathon Championships in Gdynia, Poland, after announcing that she had ended her season early.

Faith Kipyegon took a significant step towards achieving a world double in Budapest, successfully progressing through the qualifiers for the final of the women's 5,000m race.

Beatrice Chebet of Kenya claimed gold in the Olympic women's 10,000m in Paris, adding to her earlier 5,000m victory. Chebet, on her Olympic debut, finished in 30:43.25. Italy's Nadia Battocletti took silver with a national record, and defending champion sifan hassan secured bronze. Chebet's performance marked Kenya's first gold in women's 10,000m.

Dutchwoman sifan hassan secured a second title and third medal at the Tokyo Olympics on Saturday, showing her blistering pace down the home straight to win the women's 10,000 metres. The 28-year-old Ethiopian-born Hassan, world champion over 1,500m and 10,000m, won the 5,000m title and picked up bronze in the 1,500m in her bid for an unprecedented treble in Tokyo.

sifan hassan is poised to tackle a rare Olympic treble in the 1,500, 5,000 and 10,000 metres in Tokyo, with her name entered in all three events as of Tuesday to set up a gruelling schedule in her bid for a first Games medal.

Kenya's Kelvin Kiptum set a London Marathon course record on Sunday, finishing in two hours, one minute, 25 seconds, nearly three minutes ahead of second-placed Geoffrey Kamworor.

Ethiopia's Letesenbet Gidey smashed the women's 10,000 metres world record on Tuesday, on the same track where Dutch runner sifan hassan had set the previous record just two days previously.

Ethiopian-born Dutch runner sifan hassan smashed Paula Ratcliffe's long-standing European record for the women's 10,000m on Saturday. Hassan, who won double gold in the 1,500m and 10,000m at last year's world championships in Doha, timed 29min 36:67sec after 25 laps in rainy conditions at Hengelo.

An innocuous question from a friend set sifan hassan of the Netherlands on her quest for triple gold at the Olympics, she explained on Sunday as she headed home with two golds and a bronze. The Ethiopian-born Dutch runner won the 5,000 and 10,000 metres, and finished third in the 1,500m, in a hectic programme at the Tokyo Games and said all she wanted to do afterwards was sleep.

sifan hassan says she will decide on Saturday whether she will attempt a historic Olympic track treble after admitting the heat in Tokyo had been sapping.

Kenya's Beatrice Chebet won the gold medal in the women's Olympic 5,000 metres in a time of 14 minutes 28.56 seconds on Monday.

sifan hassan's bid for an unprecedented Olympic distance treble remains on course after she eased into Friday's 1500 metres final by winning her semi-final. The newly-crowned 5000m Olympic champion who also has the 10,000m in her sights will face a challenge to make it two out of two titles as Kenya's defending champion Faith Kipyegon awaits her.

Mo Farah blitzed to a new world record in the rarely-run one-hour event on his return to the track on Friday at an empty Brussels stadium that also saw sifan hassan set a new best in the women's equivalent race.

Parul Chaudhary missed her national record time by one-third of a second but that was enough for an overall 24th position as she and Ankita Dhyani failed to qualify for the final round of the women's 5000m race on Friday.

World Athletics on Tuesday announced five finalists for the Female World Athlete of the Year 2020. In spite of the many challenges presented by the global Covid-19 pandemic this year, the five athletes, who represent five countries and four area associations, have excelled, producing brilliant performances across a range of athletics disciplines in 2020.

Gidey, the world record holder over the distance, hit the last 400m of the 25-lap race at Eugene's Hayward Field in complete control and crossed the line with a savage dip in a winning time of 30min 09.54sec.

Ethiopia's Letesenbet Gidey, who smashed the women's 5,000m world record in October, was among the nominees for the female World Athlete of the Year announced on Tuesday.