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Assefa breaks women-only world marathon record
The Island
|April 28, 2025
Ethiopia's Tigist Assefa smashed the women-only world record by 26 seconds at the TCS London Marathon, running 2:15:50* to win the World Athletics Platinum Label road race on Sunday (27).
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The Olympic silver medallist kicked away from Kenya's Joyciline Jepkosgei to clinch her first London Marathon win after finishing second to Peres Jepchirchir last year.
Jepchirchir's winning mark of 2:16:16 a year ago had also been a women-only world record and that is the mark Assefa improved, finishing strongly to win by almost three minutes ahead of Jepkosgei (2:18:43). Olympic champion Sifan Hassan of the Netherlands was third (2:18:59).
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