Hassan erzielt mit 4:12.33 Uhr in Monaco einen neuen Meilen-Weltrekord der Frauen.

Mit einer starken 62-Sekunden-Schlussrunde brach Sifan Hassan
heute Abend den Meilen Weltrekord* der Frauen und erzielte mit 4:12.33 Uhr
beim EBS IAAF Diamond League Meeting in Monaco einen neuen Weltrekord,
(eine allerdings heute selten gelaufene Strecke!).

Die 26-jährige Niederländerin verbesserte mit  0,23 sec die  bisherige  Marke
von 4:12,56, die von Svetlana Masterkova aus Russland 1996 aufgestellt wurde,
als Hassan gerade drei Jahre alt war.

Nach den  ersten 800 Metern in  2:08,5 – Masterkova lief  während ihres
Weltrekordlaufs 2:06,9 – schien es so, dass der Rekord für Hassan außer
Reichweite sein würde.

Aber allein vorneweg, beschleunigte sie in der dritten Runde
und erreichte 1200m in 3:10.2, genau zwei Sekunden schneller
als Masterkova und konnte 2019 den ersten Outdoor-Weltrekord
erzielen.

Laura Weightman aus Großbritannien wurde in 4:17.60 Uhr
Zweite, Gabriella Debues-Stafford aus Kanada Dritte in 4:17.87,
einem neuen nationalen Rekord.

Race report: Hassan breaks women’s mile world record with 4:12.33 run in Monaco

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Born in Adama, Ethiopia, in 1993, Hassan left her homeland as a refugee in 2008, arriving in the Netherlands at age 15. She began running soon thereafter and less than a decade later had produced a record of extraordinary range that would rank her among the finest middle and long distance runners of all-time.

Her rise into the global ranks began in December 2013 with her European U23 cross country title, one month after gaining Dutch citizenship. Her appearances on continental and global podiums haven’t stopped since.

The following July she signalled herself as a rising 1500m force, clocking 3:57.00 to win the Paris leg of the IAAF Diamond League. Her big stage breakthrough came a month later at the 2014 European Championships in Zurich where she took gold in the 1500m and silver in the 5000m.

In 2015, she took the European indoor 1500m title and bronze over the distance at the IAAF World Championships in Beijing. Her first global title came at the 2016 World Indoor Championships in Portland where she raced to victory in the 1500m. That remains her only global gold. Hasan finished fifth in the Olympic 1500m final in Rio, and fifth again at the World Championships in London.

In 2018 she improved her proficiency over longer distances, clocking 14:22.34 to break the European 5000m record in Rabat in July and 1:05:15 for the half marathon in Copenhagen in September, another Area record. That came just a month after she took the European 5000m title and eight days after she sped to an 8:27.50 3000m victory at the Continental Cup in Ostrava, the fastest time in the world that season.

Her momentum continued in 2019. In her first race of the year, she set a world record for 5km on the road, clocking 14:44 on 17 February in Monaco. On 30 June, she broke the European 3000m record at the Prefontaine Classic in Stanford, California, clocking 8:18.48, the fastest time in the world since 1993. Twelve days later, she improved her own national 1500m record in Rabat, clocking 3:55.93. She lowered that to 3:55.30 en route to her world record mile run on Friday night.

Personal bests

World all-time women’s mile top 10

Women’s mile world record progression

* bis zu den üblichen Ratifizierungsverfahren

Horst Milde nach Informationen der IAAF