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Tigist Assefa hails super shoes as she targets new marathon world record
- Ethiopian eyes 2hr 10min mark – but not necessarily in London
- Assefa will run London Marathon in £450 Adidas super shoe
Ethiopia’s Tigist Assefa has set her sights on further lowering her women’s marathon world record to under two hours 10 minutes – but admits her only goal in Sunday’s London marathon is to win.
Achieving that time sounds like a staggering ambition but the 27-year-old is clearly confident after running 2:11:53 in Berlin last September – a time that obliterated the previous mark of 2:14:04 set by Brigid Kosgei in 2019.
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