Sunday, September 24, 2023

Ethiopia's Tigist Assefa shatters women's marathon world record by more than 2 minutes

A woman wearing running gear drops to her knees with arms outstretched, still wrapped in the finish line of a running race.

Tigist Assefa broke the women's world record by more than two minutes Sunday at the Berlin Marathon. The Ethiopian runner Assefa ran two hours, 11 minutes, 53 seconds to break the previous women's record of 2:14:04 set by Brigid Kosgei at the Chicago Marathon in 2019.



source https://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/summer/trackandfield/berlin-marathon-recap-tigist-assefa-eliud-kipchoge-1.6976835?cmp=rss
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