Tag: Women’s Marathon
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Ethiopia’s Assefa breaks women’s marathon world record
Ethiopia’s Tigist Assefa smashed the women’s marathon world record by more than two minutes in Berlin on Sunday as Kenyan Eliud Kipchoge won the men’s race for a record fifth time. Assefa clocked 2hr 11min 53sec, more than two minutes ahead of the previous world mark of 2:14:04 set by Kenyan Brigid Kosgei in Chicago…
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Women’s Olympic marathon brought forward due to heat
Saturday’s women’s Olympic marathon at the Tokyo Games has been brought forward an hour to a 6. 00 a.m. (2100 GMT Friday) start in order to protect runners from the heat, organisers have said. The move was made on the advice of the medical commission of the governing World Athletics. Marathons and the race walks…