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Ethiopia’s Tigst Assefa broke the women’s-only world record by 26 seconds, while Kenya’s Sabastian Sawe utilized cunning strategies to pull away for the victory in the London Marathon’s elite men’s division.
The 28-year-old Olympic silver medallist Tigst Assefa won Sunday in 2:15:50, surpassing the previous women’s-only mark of 2:16:16, which was set in London last year by Kenyan Peres Jepchirchir. She said the warmer temperatures (near 68 degrees by race end) helped her improve over last year’s performance. “Last year, I did have some problems with the cold,” said Assefa, who was second in 2024. “My hamstring tightened up towards the end of the race. This year, the weather suited me really well, and that’s why I’m really pleased with the way the race went.”
Who is marathon runner Tigst Assefa, bio, age, height, weight, nationality, religion, record, shoes, net worth and Instagram
Assefa ran the 2025 London Marathon in her £450 Adidas super shoe, the Adidas Adizero Adios Pro Evo 1 as she secured her first London Marathon title, finishing in 2:15:50 for the fastest-ever time in a women’s-only marathon.
28-year-old Tigst Assefa was born on 3 December 1996 and is 5ft 6in tall with the Ethiopian weighing 53kg. Tigist Assefa Tullu is the daughter of Oromo parents and is an Orthodox Christian.
What a start! 💨 Tigst Assefa runs the fastest female marathon (women-only race) with a time of 2:15:50! Congrats 💪#LondonMarathon pic.twitter.com/aVWSIvtOpy
— Guinness World Records (@GWR) April 27, 2025
Tigst Assefa career
Tigst Assefa finished the 400 meters in 56.70 seconds to win the bronze medal at the 2009 Senior Ethiopian Athletics Championships when she was 12 years old. She participated in the 800 meters for the first time in January 2012 in France, although she did not finish, giving her first international experience.
Tigst won bronze at the African Junior Championships in Reduit, Mauritius, in 2013 at the age of 16, set a personal best time of 2:01.25 at Bellinzona, Switzerland, and added silver for the 4 × 400 m relay.
Tigst, then 19 years old, competed for Ethiopia in the 800 meters at the 2016 World Indoor Championships in Portland, Oregon, and the Rio Olympic Games in Rio, Brazil, but she did not make it past the preliminary rounds of either event.
In between, she won the race at the Seiko Golden Grand Prix meet in Japan. Following a two-year break brought on by a potentially career-ending injury he suffered in Valencia in 2019 and the COVID-19 epidemic, the 25-year-old made his marathon debut in March at the first-ever Riyadh Marathon in the capital of Saudi Arabia, placing seventh with a time of 2:34:01.
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With a time of 2:22:58 on Sunday, August 11, Tigst came in second place in the marathon, trailing winner Sifan Hassan by barely three seconds. Tigst seemed to hinder her opponent in the last sprint by straying into the barricades, which led to a collision with both competitors stumbling.
Then, by the slimmest margin in the history of women’s Olympic marathons, Hassan overtook Tigst to win the race. Afterwards, the Jury of Appeal dismissed the Ethiopian team’s petition to disqualify Hassan for obstruction.