Assefa shatters women’s marathon record

The World

The Berlin Marathon is known for fast times, but the performances at yesterday’s race shattered expectations. In the race of her life, Ethiopia’s Tigist Assefa took more than two minutes off of the world record to win in 02:11.53. Host Marco Werman has the details.

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