Ethiopia's Tigst Assefa wins London Marathon in women-only world record time
Debrunner was in a field of her own throughout her race, but for a while the same could not be said for the dominant Swiss defending men's champion Marcel Hug, who found himself with an uncomfortably narrow seven-second advantage over Japanese challenger Tomoki Suzuki at the halfway point.
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