Tigist Assefa set a new women’s world record during the Berlin Marathon

Ethiopian athlete Tigist Assefa set a new women’s world record during the Berlin Marathon.

Tigist Assefa duplicated her success from 2022, but this time she also set a women’s record of 2:11:53 hours. She beat the old women’s world record, which was set by Kenyan athlete Brigid Kosgei in Chicago in 2019, by 2:11 minutes.

For the Ethiopian, it is also an improvement of the personal achievement by 3:44 minutes.

Second with a time of 2:17:49 hours was Sheila Chepkirui (Kenya). Tanzanian long-distance runner Magdalena Shauri completed the women’s top three with a time of 2:18:41 hours, and a total of eight athletes went under the 2:20:00 hours mark.

Tigst Assefa is an Ethiopian long-distance runner, a former 800m specialist. After her marathon debut in April 2022, she improved by over 18 minutes and set the third-fastest mark on the world all-time list at the 2022 Berlin Marathon. In 2013, Assefa was the 800m bronze medallst at the African Junior Championships. With her 2014 personal best in the event, she became in 2022 in Berlin the first woman in history to break two minutes for 800m and 2:20 for the marathon.