Who Won The London Marathon 2025: Sabastian Sawe takes men’s win, Tigst Aseefa breaks women’s world record

Sabastian Sawe and Tigst Aseefa surged to victory in the London Marathon 2025 on Sunday, 27 April. The London Marathon 2025 starts on Sunday morning with event organisers dreaming of breaking the world record. 

Double Olympic champion Eluid Kipchoge has made his fifth win in Britain. It was the first win of the former world record holder, Aseefa. Earlier, she made her first time win in her historic 2023 Berlin Marathon triumph. Aseefa sets a new women’s only world record in the Sunday marathon 2025.

The Olympic Silver medalist Aseefa sets the record with 10 km to go before crossing the line in 2 hours 15 minutes 50 seconds. Assefa demolished the previous record of Peres Jepchirchir of Kenya. Peris set her record last year in London, and Assefa beat her by 26 seconds.

The men’s race debutant Sabastian kicked on with a little more than 10km remaining, and his opponents were unable to respond.  The organisers also crafted a strong field for the men’s and women’s elite races. Sawe won the men’s event and finished his solo breakaway with about 10 km remaining, within two hours, 2 minutes, 27 seconds.

In the women’s race, Aseefa shattered the women’s only world record, stating that she was targeting gold this time. She said that she was second here last year and second in the Olympics. She added that she is truly happy to become the winner in the London Marathon.  She also stated that after the earlier Olympics, she prepared herself specifically for this race. It is been a longer build-up, however, it has paid off. Aseefa declared that she is not only happy to win the race but to set the women’s only world record.

In the men’s race, Sawe built himself as a new star in the world of Marathon. Sawe set the fastest ever time to win the Valencia Marathon last year in December. Just after the halfway stage, nine runners move clear, including Tola, Olympic Silver medalist Abdi Nageeye, Kipchoge, and the defending champion Alexandar Mustiso Munyao. 

After the win, Sawe stated that he ran his own race. He claimed that the timing of his decisive break was incidental since he did not take a water stop while his competitors did. 

Marcel Hug and Catherine Debrunner successfully defended their wheelchair titles. Hug completed in 44 seconds ahead of Japan’s Tomoki, and he triumphed in London for a seventh time.