Sifan Hassan withdraws from 1,500m event at the Paris 2024 Olympics

Sifan Hassan has decided to withdraw from the 1,500m event at the Paris 2024 Olympics. She will defend her 5,000m and 10,000m titles from Tokyo and will start in the marathon, but has taken the sensible decision to save her energy and miss the shortest event, the 1500m, in which she was a bronze medalist in Tokyo.

“I am a curious person looking forward to the challenges, and trying to find out what is possible. I love the journey as much as the challenge. Did I balance speed on the track with enough endurance in the marathon? Let’s find out together. It’s not easy to face the unknown but my curiosity has driven all my training towards this goal. I will try my best to succeed”, wrote Sifan Hassan in the social media.

Sifan Hassan only made her marathon debut in 2023, and followed up her win at the London Marathon by clocking a 2:13:44 (the second-fastest women’s marathon time in history) to win the 2023 Chicago Marathon.