Whatever Abeba Aregawi touches turns to gold - literally. Since she started running for Sweden at the European Athletics Championships in Gothenburg last year, she has never looked back.
The 1500m title she took from there was the foundation for a spectacular summer where she triumphed at the IAAF World Championships in Moscow along with winning the Diamond League in a period where she remained unbeaten.
Roll on to 2014, and she is on her way again after her success in Sopot in March at the IAAF World Indoor Championships.
Can the next few months possibly be as successful for Aregawi?
If they are to be, she will face the toughest of races at the Prefontaine Classic at the end of this month as part of the defence of her Diamond League crown.
Aregawi will have the fastest time in the field with her 3:56.54, but her opponents include the two women who finished behind her in Moscow.
American Jennifer Simpson was the defending World champion but Aregawi had just too much and beat her by 0.32 as she won in 4:02.67, but now on home soil, the US star might have something more to prove.
In third behind them was Kenyan Hellen Obiri, who a year ago won the Prefontaine in 3:58.58, a stadium and US all-comers’ record and she is back to defend that title.
She is joined by teammate Faith Kipyegon, who is only 20 but owns such prestigious track titles as the 2011 World Youth and 2012 World Junior champion and is the World Junior Cross-Country champion from 2011 and 2013.
Among others, the field also includes another Kenyan, Nancy Langat, the Olympic champion from Beijing in 2008, and Great Britain’s Hannah England, who won silver at the World Championships in Daegu in 2011.
Aregawi has created an aura that makes her so hard to beat, whether she is front running, or is saving so much in reserve as Simpson and Obiri discovered when they attempted to go past her down the back straight on the last lap in Moscow.
It goes without saying that Aregawi will be the clear favourite for gold at the European Athletics Championships in Zurich in August and the Prefontaine will be another chance for her to show exactly how tough she is.