Hassan Wins Marathon at Paris Games

MOSCOW, August 11 Dutch athlete Sifan Hassan won the marathon at the Olympic Games in Paris.
She broke the Olympic record, covering the distance of 42 km 195 m in 2 hours 22 minutes 55 seconds. Second place went to Ethiopian Tigist Assefa (3 seconds behind), and bronze was won by Kenyan Hellen Obiri (+0.15).
Hassan also won bronze in the 5,000m and 10,000m at the current Olympics. She also won bronze in the 1,500m at the Tokyo Games in these same events. In addition, the athlete has two victories each at the World and European Championships.

The closing ceremony of the Paris Olympics will take place later on Sunday.