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Evening Standard
27-04-2025
- Sport
- Evening Standard
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.
New York Times
27-04-2025
- Sport
- New York Times
London Marathon 2025: Tigst Assefa breaks women's only record, Sabastian Sawe wins men's race
Tigst Assefa of Ethopia won the London Marathon in a women's only record time of 2.15:50, as Kenya's Sabastian Sawe won the men's race. Assefa eclipsed the previous women's only record set by Kenya's Peres Jepchirchir last year by 26 seconds, with the course record still held by Paula Radcliffe's 2:15:25 time in 2003 — a mixed race when men and women started at the same time. Advertisement Kenya's Joyciline Jepkosgei finished second in the women's race with a time of 2:18:43, with third-place Sifan Hassan of the Netherlands recording 2:18:59 28-year-old Assefa's previously held the standard women's world record with her time of 2:11:53, set in a mixed gender race at the 2023 Berlin Marathon, but this fell to Ruth Chepngetich of Kenya, who ran 2:09:56 at the 2024 Chicago Marathon. Sawe, 29, won the men's race in a time of 2:02:27, one minute and 33 seconds quicker than his compatriot Alexander Mutiso Munyao's success in 2024. 24-year-old Jacob Kiplimo finished second, 70 seconds behind Sawe, while Abdi Nageeye of the Netherlands edged out last year's winner Mutiso into third. There was a double success for Switzerland in the wheelchair races, with Marcel Hug and Catherine Debrunner both securing victories. Hug won the men's wheelchair race for the seventh time and for a fifth year in a row with a time of 1:25:25. Hug was in a class of his own, finishing 44 seconds clear of second-place Tomoki Suzuki of Japan, with Jetze Plat of the Netherlands completing the men's podium a further 40 seconds back. In the women's race, Debrunner recorded a time that would have placed her among the top 10 in the men's race as she secured her third victory in London in the space of four years. Debrunner finished in a time of 1:34:18, two seconds shy of her world record, with Susannah Scaroni of the US three minutes and 50 seconds back in second, and Debrunner's compatriot Manuela Schar in third with a time of 1:41:06. (Top image of Tigst Assefa:)
