If anyone could win medals in the 10,000m, 5,000m and the marathon—all at the same Olympics—it’d be Sifan Hassan. And she did just that with bronze in both track events and gold in the marathon, in an Olympic record time of 2:22:55. That makes her the first woman in history to win gold in all three events.
Her Olympic gold continues a phenomenal marathon-running career for the Dutch runner who only started last year. She debuted at the 2023 London Marathon, won that in 2:18:33, and then won the 2023 Chicago Marathon in 2:13:44 which happened to be the 2nd fastest women’s marathon time in history. Her efforts got her to World #3 in the women’s marathon world rankings that year.
Ethiopia’s Tigst Assefa finished second in 2:22:58 (who tussled with in the last few hundred metres in the video above) and Kenya’s Hellen Obiri finished third in 2:23:10.