
Tigst Assefa sets women’s-only marathon world record at London: still 25 seconds slower than Radcliffe’s 2003 mark in ...
Ethiopia’s Tigst Assefa went one-up on the women’s-only world record while winning the 45th London Marathon on Sunday. She pulled away from Joyciline Jepkosgei of Kenya with whom she had set a scorching early pace, and dashed the final couple of kilometres …