Dutch runner Sifan Hassan triumphed in a high quality Paris Olympic women’s marathon on Sunday, just edging out Tigst Assefa in a tight finish. The 2023 London and Chicago marathon winner Hassan, who managed bronze in the Paris 5,000 metres and 10,000m having won gold in Tokyo, follows Czech Emil Zátopek who famously took medals in the three events at the 1952 Olympics – in that case all gold. Hassan and Tigst even bumped into each other on the sprint finish, with Hassan’s track experience helping her pull away from the Ethiopian, who had smashed the mixed marathon women’s world record in Berl…