Tigst Assefa of Ethiopia won the 2025 London Marathon in 2: ... the latter of which she set the world record of 2:11:53, which has since been broken by Ruth Chepngetich (2:09:56) in 2024.

Ethiopian Tigst Assefa won the London Marathon in a world record for a women's only race, while Kenyan Sabastian Sawe took the men's title to further his argument as the world's top male marathoner.

April 18 (Reuters) - World record holder Ruth Chepngetich and reigning champion Peres Jepchirchir have withdrawn from the London Marathon, organisers said on Friday, less than two weeks before the ...

That is the big question before this year's London Marathon. Race director ... Despite the late withdrawal of women's world record holder Ruth Chepngetich and 2024 champion Peres Jepchirchir ...

Only the 2:09:56 run by Ruth Chepngetich in last year’s Chicago Marathon, also with men in ... 1:25:25 and Catherine Debrunner missed her world record by two seconds, winning in 1:34:18.

28-year-old Assefa 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 ...

He broke the half-marathon record by 48 seconds in Barcelona. Sunday he was in the lead pack through the halfway mark at 1:01:31. World record-holder Ruth Chepngetich among elite runners who ...