London Marathon: Tigst Assefa breaks females’s only world record, Sabastian
Ethiopian Tigst Assefa won the London Marathon in a world record for a ladies’s just race, while Kenyan Sabastian Sawe took the men’s title to enhance his argument as the world’s top male marathoner.Assefa clocked an informal 2 hours, 15 minutes, 50 seconds, breaking the women’s only world record of 2:16:16 set by Kenyan Peres Jepchirchir at the 2024 London Marathon. It’s the second-fastest females’s time in London Marathon history behind Brit Paula Radcliffe’s 2:15:25 from 2003, when she had male pacemakers.Assefa, the Paris Olympic silver medalist, owns the second-fastest females’s marathon in history in general– 2:11:53 from Berlin 2023 with male pacemakers.On Sunday, she pulled away from Kenyan Joyciline Jepkosgei simply after the two-hour mark and won by a comfy 2:53. LONDON MARATHON: Outcomes Paris Olympic champion Sifan Hassan of the Netherlands put third. She was stopped by Assefa and Jepkosgei around the midwaypoint.Sawe, 29, won
the guys’s title in an unofficial 2:02:27, the second-fastest time in race history behind Kelvin Kiptum’s 2:01:25 from 2023.
Sawe retreated from a lead group of eight around the 20-mile mark and ended up winning by 70 seconds over Jacob Kiplimo of Uganda.Sawe ran his second marathon.
Last December, he ran the fastest marathon of 2024, a 2:02:05 to win in Valencia, Spain, in his debut at 26.2 miles.Kenyan Eliud Kipchoge, a two-time
Olympic gold medalist, was sixth in 2:05:25. Kipchoge, in his very first marathon because turning 40 years old, was dropped from the lead group in the 19th mile.The next World Marathon Major will be Sydney’s launching on the series on Aug. 31. Kipchoge has actually already revealed he will run it.In all, there were 56,640 finishers at the London Marathon, breaking the record for the world’s largest
single marathon. Last November’s New York City Marathon had 55,646. London Marathon 2025 Outcomes Women’s Elite 1.
Tigst Assefa(ETH)– 2:15:50 2. Joyciline Jepkosgei(KEN )– 2:18:43 3. Sifan Hassan (NED)– 2:18:59 4. Sanctuary Hailu Desse(ETH )– 2:19:17 5. Vivian Cheruiyot(KEN)– 2:22:32 6.
Stella Chesang( UGA)– 2:22:42 7. Sofiia Yaremchuk(ITA)– 2:23:14 8. Eilish McColgan(GBR )– 2:24:25
9. Rose Harvey (GBR)– 2:25:01
10. Susanna Sullivan(USA)– 2:29:30 Men’s Elite 1. Sabastian Sawe (KEN)– 2:02:27
2. Jacob Kiplimo (UGA)– 2:03:37
3. Alexander Mutiso (KEN)– 2:04:20
4. Abdi Nageeye (NED)– 2:04:20
5. Tamirat Tola (ETH)– 2:04:42
6. Eliud Kipchoge(KEN )– 2:05:25
7. Hillary Kipkoech (KEN)– 2:06:05
8. Amanal Petros(
GER )– 2:06:30 9. Mahamed Mahamed(GBR)
— 2:08:52 10. Milkesa Mengesha(ETH)
— 2:09:01 14. Alex Yee(GBR )– 2:11:08
(Olympic triathlon champion )World’s
Largest Marathons in History (by finishers )1. 2025 London Marathon– 56,640 2
. 2024 New York City Marathon– 55,646
3. 2025 Paris Marathon– 55,499 4
. 2024 Berlin Marathon– 54,280 5
. 2024 Paris Marathon– 54,175 Results from the London Marathon on April 27, 2025.