Kenyan Sabastian Sawe Wins London Marathon in 2 hours, 2 minutes and 27 seconds...Kipchoge is 6th place

Kenyan Sabastian Sawe Wins London Marathon in 2 hours, 2 minutes and 27 seconds...Kipchoge is 6th place

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Kenyan marathoner Sabathian Sawh (29) beat out his outstanding rivals to win the men's race at the 2025 London Marathon.

Sawe crossed the finish line in front of Buckingham Palace with a time of 2:02:27, the fastest time in the competition in London, Britain, on the 27th (local time).

Sawe, who made her name on the international stage by winning the Valencia Marathon in Spain on December 1 last year in 2:02:05, her first marathon in her career, also showed off her overwhelming skills in her second competition, recording a record of winning two consecutive competitions.

The competition attracted attention with a large number of top athletes, including "living legend" Eliud Kipchoge (41, Kenya), gold medalist Tamirat Tola (34, Ethiopia), and Jacob Kiplimo (25, Uganda), who set the world record for the half marathon (21.0975km) in February (56:42 seconds).
The initial race lasted for about 90 minutes with Kipchoge, Tola, and Kiplimo, the four-time champion of the event, forming the leading group. After 90 minutes had passed, Sawa pitched a winning move first. Unlike other players on the stand, Sawa did not pick up water and accelerated his pace to lead the race alone. As a result, Kiplimo accelerated, but Sawa's acceleration was already in place. 바카라

In the second half of the race, he was the sole lead of the race. He maintained his lead by maintaining distance from Kiplimo, and was the first to complete the 42.195km race, still lively. Kiplimo crossed the finish line in 2:03:37, one minute and 10 seconds behind Kiplimo.

The runner-up was determined by photo-reading, which is unusual in a marathon. Last year's champion Alexander Mutiso Munyao of Kenya and Abdi Nageye of the Netherlands entered the race almost simultaneously. Their time was the same at 2:04:20, but Munyao slightly led the latter in photo-reading to rank third.

Tola finished fifth and sixth, respectively, with a time of 2:04:42 and Kipchoge's time of 2:05:25.

In the women's division, Tigst Asefa (29) of Ethiopia and Siphan Hassan (32) of the Netherlands, who even engaged in a last-minute struggle at the Paris Olympics last year, competed again. At the Paris Olympics, Hassan won the gold medal, while Asefa won the silver medal.

However, in London, Asepa broke the women's course record for the event with a time of 2:15:50. Hasan came in third with a time of 2:18:59, while Joey Cillin Jeff Kosgei (32, Kena), who recorded 2:18:43, took second place.

Meanwhile, the Korean men's marathon record is 2:07:23 set by Lee Bong-ju at the Tokyo International Marathon in 2000, and the women's record is 2:25:41 set by Kim Do-yeon at the Seoul International Marathon in March 2018, showing a marked difference from the world stage.