Tigst Assefa has damaged the ladies’s world record by more than two minutes at the Berlin Marathon
ByThe Associated Press
September 24, 2023, 5:37 AM
Participants in the marathon run thru the orange paint poured on the asphalt by activists of the local weather coverage team ‘Last Generation’ at the get started of the Berlin marathon, in Berlin, Sunday, Sept. 24, 2023. (Sebastian Christoph Gollnow/dpa by the use of AP)
The Associated Press
BERLIN — Tigst Assefa broke the women’s world record by more than two minutes Sunday at the Berlin Marathon, as Eliud Kipchoge received the males’s race for the 5th time however could not destroy his personal record.
Ethiopian runner Assefa, the winner in Berlin a 12 months in the past, ran 2 hours, 11 minutes, 53 seconds to damage the earlier women’s record of 2:14:04 set by Brigid Kotsgei at the Chicago Marathon in 2019.
Kipchoge ran on my own from 32 kilometers (20 miles) onward however slowed fairly towards the finish. His time of 2 hours, 2 minutes, 42 seconds was once more than a minute and a part off the record he set in Berlin final 12 months.
Kipchoge broke the two-hour barrier in Vienna in 2019 when he ran 1:59:40 but it surely was once now not formally thought to be the world record. He was once working in an tournament that didn’t agree to rules as it was once adapted round his time, with teams of pacemakers and beverages delivered by a bike owner.
The German environmental team Last Generation had signaled it supposed to disrupt the Berlin Marathon. Police and safety group of workers averted a bunch of other people from blockading the direction in a while earlier than the get started of the race and orange paint was once splashed throughout the street.
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