Sifan Hassan’s historic marathon gold has a new cooling band on his head, Camilla Richardsson has a painful sky | Sport

Sifan Hassan, who ran to Olympic victory in the women’s marathon, already celebrated her third medal at the Paris Olympics.

Dutch Sifan Hassan ran to victory in the women’s marathon at the Paris Olympics. Hassan set an Olympic record of 2:22.55 and beat Ethiopia, who ran second Tigst Assefan in three seconds. of Kenya Helen Obiri took bronze and was 15 seconds behind the winner.

Hassan previously won bronze medals in the 5,000-meter and 10,000-meter distances in Paris. There was still enough speed even in the marathon on the final day of the Games.

Hassan and Assefan even made contact with each other during the final kir, but both remained upright.

Hassan made history in more ways than one, becoming the first woman to compete in the 5000m, 10,000m and marathon at the same Olympics. He also became the second Olympic athlete ever to medal at each distance. At 5000 and 10,000 meters, the result was bronze.

Previously, Czechoslovakia was able to win three medals from these trips in the same Games Emil Zatopek in 1952 in Helsinki.

Hassan took advantage of the latest technology and ran through the streets of Paris with a special headband on his head. of the Runners World website according to that it was about a cooling collar. According to the company that manufactures the pantos, sweat is absorbed into small cooling areas, where the liquid has more surface area to evaporate.

For a regular runner, a cooling band may also seem attractive, but you can’t get it cheap. The price of one collar is about 200 dollars, or a good 180 euros.

Similar pantos have been seen in Paris in other endurance sports. In the men’s marathon, it was used, among other things, by those who reached silver Bashir Abdi as well as Kenya, which was one of the favourites, but stopped the race Eliud Kipchoge.

Richardsson had a tough day – “The legs died”

He was the last Finn to compete in the Paris Olympics Camilla Richardson skyrocketed to 65th place. Richardsson ran a time of 2:38:02, which means he was about 15 minutes away from the top of the competition.

– This was not the route made for me, it was much worse than I imagined. I had to change my goal just to get to the finish line. Even that was a pretty tough goal today, because the legs were dying. It was a rough trip. I’m proud that I made it to the finish line, Richardsson said.

Richardsson felt that, despite hill training, Paris’ Mäkinen route did not suit him.

– Terrible fight. If there had been a competition other than the Olympics, I would have left this out. This was a completely different race than in Valencia, where I ran the Finnish record (2.24.38), Richardsson said.

Richardsson’s history in the marathon is still short. He tried the trip for the first time in 2021.

– I am not yet an experienced enough marathon runner. You have to train for another couple of years before the marathons start running, Richardsson said.