An injured Tigst Assefa hobbled implicit the enactment astatine the Berlin Marathon connected Sunday aft looking acceptable to smash the women's satellite record.
The Ethiopian inactive won with the third-fastest clip successful past successful 2 hours 11 minutes 4 seconds.
But the 29-year-old, a metallic medallist astatine the Paris Olympics 2 years ago, had been cruising to a caller grounds earlier fading successful the last stages.
Kenyan jock Ruth Chepngetich's clip of 2:09:56, acceptable astatine the 2024 Chicago Marathon, remains the satellite grounds time, though that effect is overshadowed by the three-year doping prohibition she received successful 2025.
Assefa, the 2026 London Marathon winner, started rapidly and led the tract by a infinitesimal astatine the 15km mark. She was up of the grounds gait astatine 35km and is simply a renowned accelerated finisher - but began to endure wide discomfort and her gait slowed.
However she inactive broke the Berlin people grounds of 2:11:53 that she acceptable successful 2023 - which was besides her erstwhile idiosyncratic best.
In addition, she improved connected her clip of 2:15:41 astatine the London Marathon earlier this year.
The apical 5 finishers were each from Ethiopia, with Bedatu Hirpa 2nd and Dera Dida third.
Guye Adola - different Ethiopian - won the men's contention with a clip of 2:02:50.
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