This Week In Track & Field: 2025 London Marathon Recap – Sabastian Sawe’s Statement Win, Tigst Assefa’s World Record + More From The Xiamen Diamond League Opener

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🗓️ 28 April 2025

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Chris Chavez and Preet Majithia are back on the mic to break down one of the biggest weekends in recent marathon history.

They dive into Sabastian Sawe’s breathtaking 2:02:27 victory at the 2025 London Marathon — including his devastating move at 30K, and what this win means for the marathon World #1 debate.

On the women’s side, Tigst Assefa delivered a gutsy performance to break the women’s-only world record in 2:15:50, securing a massive payday and maybe reminding us all that she could be the very best women's marathoner in the world.

The guys also discuss Jacob Kiplimo’s impressive marathon debut, Eliud Kipchoge’s graceful approach to this new chapter of his career and other key performances.

We also unpack the Diamond League opener in Xiamen, China— including Karsten Warholm’s world best over 300m hurdles and Faith Kipyegon’s near-world record run.

We'll record a preview of Grand Slam Track: Miami later this week on-site from Florida.

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0:33.3	It is April 28.
0:38.6	I'm Chris Chavez.
0:40.4	I'm Preparitia.
0:46.5	And this week we are recapping the London Marathon.
0:55.3	And then we've also got the Jaaman Diamond League, which was more entertaining than I thought it would be because we had tons of surprises there but we're going to start with our London Marathon recap and some parting thoughts a new
1:02.5	marathon king appears to be crowned the queen makes history and the greatest ever shows the world
1:09.6	that he still got something left in the
1:12.0	tank. So, real quick, I'll give you a recap of what took place. Sebastian Saway, last year's
1:19.7	fastest marathoner, dropped the hammer with a brutal, it was like 416, 418, depending on who
1:25.6	you ask, and depending on like the broadcast, 28th mile to finish in 202, 27.
1:33.0	That's the second fastest all time in London marathon history and left some of the best marathoners in the world just, like, totally in the dust.
1:42.8	We had Jacob Cblimo show that he's not just a half-marathon wonder
1:45.9	and stunned some people with his 203 debut for second place.
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