{"id":1185,"date":"2021-06-07T09:03:11","date_gmt":"2021-06-07T09:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/track\/?p=1185"},"modified":"2021-06-09T09:15:27","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T09:15:27","slug":"sifan-hassan-new-10000m-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/track\/news\/sifan-hassan-new-10000m-record","title":{"rendered":"Sifan Hassan new 10000m record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/track\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/hassan-WR10k.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1187\" src=\"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/track\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/hassan-WR10k.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"387\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/track\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/hassan-WR10k.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/track\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/hassan-WR10k-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Netherlands &#8211; There was little about Sifan Hassan\u2019s 10000m run at the FBK Games in Hengelo on Sunday (6) that gave the impression she was being patient. Eyes firmly fixed on the track ahead, her arms pumping and legs turning with incredible consistency, she looked like a person who had places to be \u2013 and fast.<!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Sifan Hassan sets new 10000m World Record<\/h3>\n<p>But, at the same time, she seemed calm and in control. Despite traveling at a pace of 2:55 per kilometre for the majority of her 10,000m, there was no fluster or signs of the tiredness that she later revealed had gripped her in the early stages. Hassan was flowing towards the finish line, where \u2013 29 minutes and six seconds after she started \u2013 her world record ambition would be realised. Inside, the Dutch 28-year-old was giving herself a stern talking to.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHaving travelled from America, I had jet lag and I felt terrible at the beginning,\u201d Hassan revealed. \u201cEverything felt heavy, but I just tried to hang on to the lights. Sometimes I accidentally passed them, and I thought \u2018no, calm down! Be patient.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The lights she describes formed part of the Wavelight <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tech-e-view.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">technology<\/a> used at the Fanny Blankers-Koen Stadion during the World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meeting in the Dutch city, programmed to highlight the pace needed to improve the world 10,000m record of 29:17.45 which had been set by Ethiopia\u2019s Almaz Ayana at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio.<\/p>\n<p>The blue lights showed world record tempo, while the green indicated the speed of Hassan\u2019s own <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/europe\/\">European<\/a> record of 29:36.67 run on the same track eight months earlier. Ultimately, the double world champion\u2019s patience paid off, as she waited until the final kilometre to move away from those bulbs. Then it was Hassan\u2019s turn to light the way, and she reached her destination in a time of 29:06.82.<\/p>\n<p><em>article and image by World Athletics<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Netherlands &#8211; There was little about Sifan Hassan\u2019s 10000m run at the FBK Games in Hengelo on Sunday (6) that gave the impression she was being patient. Eyes firmly fixed on the track ahead, her arms pumping and legs turning with incredible consistency, she looked like a person who had places to be \u2013 and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1187,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[168,4,692,689,1,691],"tags":[627,693,690],"class_list":["post-1185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-10000m","category-featured","category-hengelo","category-nl","category-news","category-women-2","tag-10000m","tag-hengelo","tag-sifan-hassan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/track\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/track\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/track\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/track\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/track\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/track\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1188,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/track\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185\/revisions\/1188"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/track\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/track\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/track\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/track\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}