A slap of more than two minutes to the old best performance. Ethiopian Tigist Assefa smashed the women’s marathon world record on Sunday in Berlin, in 2h11’53”, lowering the previous best mark of Kenyan Brigid Kosgei by more than two minutes (2h14’4”, October 13 2019 in Chicago).
At 26, Assefa becomes the first athlete under 2h12, and signs her second consecutive victory in Berlin, after her success last year in 2h15’37”. At the time, she had set the record on the Berlin course, which is conducive to world records.
On the men’s side, the Kenyan Eliud Kipchoge won the event for the fifth time (after 2015, 2017, 2018 and 2022) in 2h02’42”, a time which does not allow him to improve his world record of 2h01′ 09” established last year in the streets of the German capital.
Kipchoge overtakes Gebreselassie
At 38, Eliud Kipchoge becomes the most successful marathon runner in Berlin ahead of the Ethiopian Haile Gebreselassie (2006, 2007, 2008, 2009). On Sunday, he ran the eighth-fastest marathon in history, just over a minute and a half off his best mark.