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Ethiopian athlete smashes marathon record in new adidas shoe

28/09/2023
Ethiopian athlete smashes marathon record in new adidas shoe

Days after hailing a new running shoe from adidas as the lightest racing footwear she had ever worn, Ethiopia’s Tigist Assefa has broken the world record for women for the marathon.

She wore the shoe, the Adizero Adios Pro Evo 1, at the Berlin Marathon on September 24 and won with a time of 2:11:53, beating the previous world record by more than two minutes.

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