After finishing as the runner-up in her last two marathons, Assefa delivered a record-breaking performance of 2:15:50 in ...

LONDON :Sunday's London Marathon set a world record for the number of finishers, eclipsing the previous mark of 55,646 in New York last year, organisers said. A total of 56,640 runners crossed the ...

Will records be ... history of the London Marathon" after a stellar line-up was announced in January. Despite the late withdrawal of women's world record holder Ruth Chepngetich and 2024 champion ...

With more than 56,000 people in the field, the London Marathon ... weeks ago. Chepngetich set the world record last year, running 2:09:56 in Chicago to become the first woman to break 2:10.

London Marathon will feature two of the three fastest women and two of the five fastest men in history - but will world records be broken on Sunday?

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.

With more than 56,000 people in the field, the London Marathon is "the most ... from the race two weeks ago. Chepngetich set the world record last year, running 2:09:56 in Chicago to become the first ...

Since then, women’s world records ... women’s marathon time overall, a 2:11:53 set in Berlin in 2023 in a race in which there was a male pacesetter. Only the 2:09:56 run by Ruth Chepngetich ...