Assefa, the former world record holder in the marathon, used a 5:03 24th mile to separate herself from Jepkosgei to win her third World Marathon Major. Assefa, 28, previously won the 2022 and 2023 ...

Updates: Assefa, Sawe win London Marathon titles. Tigst Assefa of Ethiopia has done it, setting a women's only world record to win in 2:15:50, beating the previous record set last year by Kenyan ...

Tigst Assefa of Ethiopia celebrates after winning the women's race at the London Marathon, Sunday, April 27, 2025. Credit: AP/Alberto Pezzali “It was a little bit humid," Jepkosgei said.

Assefa’s winning time set a new women’s-only world record, breaking Peres Jepchirchir’s mark of 2:16:16 from last year. At the London Marathon, the elite women start in a group by themselves ...

Tigst Assefa of Ethiopia secured her first London Marathon title, finishing in 2:15:50 for the fastest-ever time in a women's-only marathon. Kenya's Sabastian Sawe won the men's race in his London ...

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. It’s the second-fastest ...

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 ...

LONDON (AP) — 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 ...

LONDON (AP) — 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 ...

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.

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 ...