Athle Tamirat Tola won the world men’s marathon final

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Athlete Tamirat Tola won the men’s marathon final at the 18th World Athletics Championships held in Oregon, USA.

Athlete Mosnet Geremew finished the race by taking second place.

Tola, who won Olympic 10,000m bronze at the 2016 Rio Games and marathon silver at the 2017 London worlds, clocked a championship record of 2hr 5min 37sec, smashing the previous best of 2:06.54 set by Kenyan Abel Kirui in Berlin in 2009

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