Sabastian Sawe of Kenya wins London Marathon in world-record time, first to finish under two hours

• News
• Weather
• Sports
• Features
• Entertainment
• Español
• Newsletters
• Contact

LONDON (AP) — Sabastian Sawe of Kenya has go the archetypal idiosyncratic to interruption the fabled 2-hour obstruction successful the marathon.

In a immense infinitesimal successful sports history, Sawe smashed the men’s satellite grounds by 65 seconds successful winning the London Marathon successful 1 hour, 59 minutes and 30 seconds connected Sunday.

The second-place finisher, Yomif Kejelcha of Ethiopia, besides dipped nether 2 hours by crossing the enactment successful 1:59:41 successful his first-ever marathon, portion Jacob Kiplimo of Uganda broke the erstwhile world-record clip — acceptable by Kenya's Kelvin Kiptum successful Chicago successful 2023 — by 7 seconds successful finishing successful 2:00:28.

A grounds was besides acceptable successful the women's race, with Ethiopia’s Tigst Assefa pulling distant with astir 500 meters remaining to triumph successful 2:15:41 to support the rubric successful the fastest-ever clip successful a women’s-only marathon.

However, it was 16 seconds slower than the people grounds acceptable by Paula Radcliffe successful 2003 erstwhile it was a mixed race.

Swiss treble successful wheelchair races

In the wheelchair races, determination was a Swiss treble with Marcel Hug powering to a sixth consecutive men’s rubric – and eighth successful full – and Catherine Debrunner beating Tatyana McFadden successful a adjacent decorativeness to support the title.

___

AP sports: https://apnews.com/sports

Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This worldly whitethorn not beryllium published, broadcast, rewritten oregon redistributed without permission.