When she had completed 41 of the 42.195 kilometers, Tigist Assefa looked at her watch a little longer. Up until then, the Ethiopian woman had gone through her working day quite calmly; From the outside, at least, it seemed as if she hardly noticed it all: how spectacularly she plowed through the field, how she passed runners like the American Jared Ward, who was the sixth fastest man in the 2016 Olympic marathon in Rio de Janeiro. But now, a little more than a kilometer before the end of work, Assefa seemed to want to check how far she had carried it here, but she did so with as much excitement as if she were inquiring about the bus timetable. Then she started the final sprint.
Tigist Assefa and the marathon world record in Berlin: jaw down! – Sports
