Sabastian Sawe is the 2025 London Marathon champion after beating high-level rivals on Sunday, April 27, 2025.

Sawe, who is the 2024’s fastest marathoner and Valencia Marathon champion, conquered the London course to win his first World Marathon Major. He secured the London Marathon gong by clocking 2:02:27, and that’s two marathons and two big wins for the star.

Meanwhile, Eliud Kipchoge, a previous London Marathon winner, finished sixth after clocking 2:05:25.

In the women’s category, Tigst Assefa won as Kenya’s Joyciline Jepkosgei finished second.

Assefa, an Olympic silver medalist and former marathon world record holder, registered a women’s-only world record of 2:15:50. The previous record was 2:16:16 by Peres Jepchirchir, registered in 2024.

She finished hard to stride over the finish line in 2:15:50—the third-fastest marathon of her career behind the 2:11:53 she ran to win in Berlin in 2023, a mark that at the time was a world record for a women’s marathon in a mixed race, and her 2:15:37 also from Berlin in 2022, as per World Athletics.

Meanwhile, Jepkosgei clocked 2:18:43, ahead of Sifan Hassan, who timed 2:18:59.