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Can Assefa go quicker again?published at 08:59 BST
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Assefa sets women’s-only marathon world record
Ethiopia’s Olympic silver medallist Tigst Assefa set a new women-only world record of 2 hours 15 minutes and 50 seconds last year and reckons she’s in better form this year.
“My training has gone well, it has been better, even, than my preparation last year, so I think it is possible to beat the record I set last year,” she said this week.
“If I am going to try to break the world record again, the pacemaking has to be important.
“I am expecting the time that the pacemakers will set for the half distance will be allowing me to run faster than the record last year.”
It means Assefa is the strong favourite to triumph again, particularly in the absence of Sifan Hassan and Peres Jepchirchir.
Kenya’s Joyciline Jepkosgei, who Assefa beat by almost three minutes last year, and New York Marathon winner Hellen Obiri could be her closest challengers.
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