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Sifan Hassan, a 12-time Olympic and World Championships medalist—including five gold— will make her highly anticipated TCS New York City Marathon debut after her victory at the 2025 Sydney Marathon, breaking the tape in 2:18:22.

Named the women’s World Athlete of the Year in 2024, Hassan is one of the greatest distance runners of all time from the 1,500 meters up to the marathon.

In 2023 she made her stunning marathon debut, winning the London Marathon despite stopping twice during the race. That same year she won the Chicago Marathon in a personal best time of 2:13:44.

At the 2019 World Athletics Championships she won double gold in the 5,000 meters and 10,000 meters, becoming the first person to do so. She continued to make history at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, medaling in the 1,500 meters (bronze), 5,000 meters (gold), and 10,000 meters (gold), the first athlete to medal in a middle-distance event and both long-distance events in a single Olympic Games.

At the 2024 Paris Olympics she completed a remarkable triple, medaling in the 5,000 meters (bronze), 10,000 meters (bronze), and marathon (gold).

Her first big victory was at the age of 18 in 2011, when she won the Eindhoven Half Marathon, but it wasn’t until 2015 that her career breakthrough came, when she won bronze at the World Championships in Beijing in the 1,500 meters.