16/08/2024
The beautiful girl in front of you is named "Sifan Hassan." She competes in athletics and participated in the Paris Olympics.
Sifan is originally from Ethiopia, but she migrated as a refugee from Ethiopia to the Netherlands in 2008 when she was 15 years old.
Sifan studied nursing in the Netherlands and met other girls from Ethiopia like her who were members of the local athletics club.
Ed Peters, the head coach at Eindhoven Club, said, "We saw that Sifan was very talented, but her problem was that she was so shy that she couldn’t commit to training."
Sifan faced a very difficult situation at the 2023 World Championships in Hungary 👇
Sifan was leading the 10,000-meter race and was about to cross the finish line, but she fell, and the gold medal slipped away from her!! 😮
But just imagine this, despite being shy and having a very tough childhood and adolescence,
she managed to achieve something at the Tokyo Olympics that no other female runner has ever done in history 👇
Sifan won 3 medals at the Tokyo Olympics: two golds and one bronze in the 1500, 5000, and 10,000-meter races, becoming the first female runner ever to do so!! 😮
Sifan entered the current Paris Olympics and managed to win 3 medals as well: 2 bronze medals in the 5000 and 10,000-meter races and a gold medal in the marathon!! 😮
Not only that, but Sifan also broke the Olympic marathon record with a time of 2 hours, 22 minutes, and 55 seconds. Imagine the greatness!! 😮
Sifan Hassan was the last competitor to be crowned at the Olympics, and this happened at the closing ceremony today.
Sifan Hassan went from poverty, shyness, and suffering to the highest peaks of glory ❤️
