Ethiopia’s Tigist Assefa obliterated the women’s marathon world record on Sunday as she won the Berlin Marathon, completing the course in 2:11:53 and shaving more than two minutes off the ...

Tigst Assefa broke the women’s world record by more than two minutes at the Berlin Marathon, as Eliud Kipchoge won the men’s race for the fifth time.

LONDON — Tigst Assefa of Ethiopia took advantage of the warm weather to pull away late for her first London Marathon title on Sunday, setting a record time for a women's-only race in the process.

Assefa clocked an unofficial 2 hours, 15 minutes, 50 seconds, breaking the women's only world record of 2:16:16 set by Kenyan Peres Jepchirchir at the 2024 London Marathon.

Tigst Assefa needed just 18 months to go from marathon debutant to smashing the world record by more than two minutes. The Ethiopian's astonishing Berlin race - winning in two hours, 11 minutes ...

Assefa's time was the second-fastest run by a woman in London history, behind Paula Radcliffe's 2:15:25 at the 2003 London Marathon, then a world record. Radcliffe ran with male pacemakers in the ...

Assefa ran 2 hours, 11 minutes, 53 seconds to break the previous women’s record of 2:14:04 set by Kenya’s Brigid Kosgei at the Chicago Marathon in 2019.

Ethiopia’s Tigst Assefa and Kenya’s Joyciline Jepkosgei set a torrid pace down the stretch in Sunday’s London Marathon, but it was Assefa who pulled away to set a women’s-only world record.

Ethiopia's Tigst Assefa crosses the finish line as the first woman to finish the Berlin Marathon, in Berlin, Sunday, Sept. 24, 2023. Credit: AP/Andreas Gora ...