PUBLISHED : 24 Sep 2023 at 20: 47 Berlin, Germany – September 24, 2023 Gold medallist Ethiopia’s Tigist Assefa commemorates on the podium after winning the females’s Berlin Marathon (Photo: REUTERS/Lisi Niesner) BERLIN, Sept 24 (Reuters) – Ethiopia’s Tigst Assefa shattered the females’s marathon world record in Berlin on Sunday, lopping off more than 2 minutes from the previous finest to clock an authorities time of 2 hours 11 minutes and 53 seconds. Assefa, who had set a course record with a individual finest last year, set a blistering early speed, slowly shaking off any competitors to pulverise Kenyan Brigid Kosgei’s record of 2 hours 14 minutes and 4 seconds set in2019 Remarkably, her divides were muchfaster after the midway mark. “I understood I desired to go for the world record however I neverever idea I would do this time,” stated the 26-year-old, a previous 800-metre runner. “It was the outcome of difficult work.” With her time she set a marker fo
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