After two runner-up finishes in her final two marathons, Ethiopia’s Tigst Assefa reclaimed her spot atop the rostrum on Sunday on the 2025 London Marathon. The 28-year-old triumphed with a women-only world file time of two:15:50, securing her third profession marathon main victory.
2:15:50 ⏱️
Tigist Assefa is your new women-only marathon world record-holder ⚡️#londonmarathon2025 pic.twitter.com/nXltd8L7Jr
— World Athletics (@WorldAthletics) April 27, 2025
Assefa’s efficiency surpassed the earlier women-only file of two:16:16, set by Peres Jepchirchir eventually yr’s London Marathon. World Athletics started recognizing women-only world information in 2011, guaranteeing equity by eradicating the refined benefits gained from pacing by male runners in mixed-gender races.
The race noticed Assefa strategically deploy mild surges to outlast reigning Olympic champion Sifan Hassan on the 30-kilometre mark. As Assefa broke away from the pack, Kenya’s Joyciline Jepkosgei responded with a robust counter-move, sustaining tempo with the previous world file holder till the 38-kilometre mark. Jepkosgei finally completed second in 2:18:44, whereas Hassan rounded out the rostrum in third with a time of two:19:00.
This victory in London marks Assefa’s third Abbott World Marathon Main (AWMM) title. She beforehand took wins on the 2022 and 2023 Berlin Marathons, along with her 2023 Berlin victory standing out in ladies’s distance working historical past—she shattered the marathon world file with a time of two:11:53. That file was later lowered to 2:09:56 by Ruth Chepngetich on the 2024 Chicago Marathon.
Along with her London and Berlin victories, Assefa received silver within the ladies’s marathon on the Paris 2024 Olympics, narrowly dropping to Hassan in a dash end. Nonetheless, Assefa acquired one of the best of Hassan within the rubber match, and this time, in file time.
One of many standout performances within the London Marathon ladies’s area got here from Nice Britain’s Eilish McColgan, making her anticipated marathon debut. Following within the footsteps of her mom, Liz McColgan, Eilish completed as the highest British girl with a time of two:24:25, setting the quickest marathon mark in historical past by a Scottish runner.
High 10 ladies
Tigst Assefa (Ethiopia) 2:15:50
Joyciline Jepkosgei (Kenya) 2:18:43
Sifan Hassan (Netherlands) 2:18:59
Haven Hailu Desse (Ethiopia) 2:19:17
Vivian Cheruiyot (Kenya) 2:22:32
Stella Chesang (Uganda) 2:22:42
Sofiia Yaremchuk (Italy) 2:23:14
Eilish McColgan (U.Okay.) 2:24:25
Rose Harvey (U.Okay.) 2:25:01
Susanna Sullivan (U.S.) 2:29:30
For full outcomes from the 2025 London Marathon, see right here.