LONDON, April 28 (Reuters) - Sunday's London Marathon set a world record for the number of finishers, eclipsing the previous mark of 55,646 in New York last year, organisers said.

World record holder Ruth Chepngetich and reigning champion Peres Jepchirchir have withdrawn from the London Marathon, organisers said on Friday, less than two weeks before the race.

Assefa’s winning time set a new women’s-only world record, breaking Peres Jepchirchir’s mark of 2:16:16 from last year. At the London Marathon, the elite women start in a group by themselves ...

Updates: Assefa, Sawe win London Marathon titles. Tigst Assefa of Ethiopia has done it, setting a women's only world record to win in 2:15:50, beating the previous record set last year by Kenyan ...

Assefa clocked an unofficial 2 hours, 15 minutes, 50 seconds, breaking the women’s only world record of 2:16:16 set by Kenyan Peres Jepchirchir at the 2024 London Marathon. It’s the second-fastest ...

28-year-old Assefa previously held the standard women’s world record with her time of 2:11:53, set in a mixed gender race at the 2023 Berlin Marathon, but this fell to Ruth Chepngetich of Kenya ...

Ethiopia’s Tigst Assefa and Kenya’s Joyciline Jepkosgei set a torrid pace down the stretch in Sunday’s London Marathon, but it was Assefa who pulled away to set a women’s-only world record.

Ethiopian Tigst Assefa won the London Marathon in a world record for a women's only race, while Kenyan Sabastian Sawe took the men's title to further his argument as the world's top male marathoner.

Uganda's Jacob Kiplimo is making his marathon debut in London after shattering the half-marathon world record in February. He broke the half-marathon record by 48 seconds in Barcelona.