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    "title": "World Athletics Ratifies Tigist Assefa\u2019s Women's Marathon World Record",
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    "excerpt": "World Athletics: World Athletics, the governing body of international track and field competitions, has ratified Ethiopian star Tigist Assefa\u2019s women's marathon world record of 2:11:53 set in Berlin last year.\n",
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    "editor1": "World Athletics: World Athletics, the governing body of international track and field competitions, has ratified Ethiopian star Tigist Assefa\u2019s women's marathon world record of 2:11:53 set in Berlin last year.\n<p>The Ethiopian smashed the previous mark by more than two minutes at the Berlin Marathon on September 24, 2023, becoming the first woman to run inside 2:13 and 2:12, and erasing the world record of 2:14:04 that had been set by Kenya\u2019s Brigid Kosgei in Chicago on October 13, 2019.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>During Assefa\u2019s record-breaking run, a large pack of the leading contenders ran together through the early stages, passing through 5km in 15:58. 13 women were still in contact with the lead as they reached 10km in 31:45, the World Athletics informed in a statement on Thursday.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>By 15km, reached in 47:26, Assefa and compatriot Workenesh Edesa managed to open up a slight gap. Less than two kilometres later, Assefa was alone out in front and she went on to reach the halfway stage in 1:06:20, comfortably inside world record pace.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Assefa, still looking incredibly relaxed and composed, covered the 25-35km section in a remarkable 31:02. Spurred on by the knowledge that the world record was in the bag, Assefa picked up her pace in the closing kilometres and charged through the finish line in 2:11:53.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>\u201cI hope that my performance will be motivation for young women athletes in Ethiopia and that the world record one year before the Olympic Games gives our country a boost for Paris,\u201d said Assefa.<\/p>\r\n\r\n",
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