{"id":264762,"date":"2026-09-27T21:28:02","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T21:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/27\/even-worse-than-we-thought-assefa-suffers-partial-achilles-tendon-rupture-athletics-news\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T21:28:02","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T21:28:02","slug":"even-worse-than-we-thought-assefa-suffers-partial-achilles-tendon-rupture-athletics-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/27\/even-worse-than-we-thought-assefa-suffers-partial-achilles-tendon-rupture-athletics-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Even Worse Than We Thought: Assefa Suffers Partial Achilles Tendon Rupture &#8211; Athletics News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Tigst Assefa has come close to the world marathon record, but in the final stretch her hopes faded. The Ethiopian athlete began to lose speed in the last kilometres and crossed the finish line visibly limping.<\/p>\n<p>At first the footage suggested cramps. However, after the finish, the director of the Berlin Marathon confirmed that Assefa had suffered a partial rupture of the Achilles tendon in her right leg.<\/p>\n<p>Pese a la lesi\u00f3n, Assefa logr\u00f3 terminar en <strong>2:16:05, mejor marca personal<\/strong>, aunque muy lejos del ritmo que llevaba hasta ese momento. Sus \u00faltimos 2,195 kil\u00f3metros los recorri\u00f3 a <strong>3:41 min\/km<\/strong>, frente a los <strong>3:06 min\/km<\/strong> que hab\u00eda mantenido hasta entonces.<br \/>\n<strong>Ruth Chepngetich\u2019s world record still stands<\/strong>, after the Kenyan was sanctioned for doping and stripped of her results from the period following the infringement.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DdzDsOrjBJr\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:540px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\">\n<div style=\"padding:16px;\">\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-top: 8px;\">\n<p>View this post on Instagram<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-7da6b46c\">\n\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-26a0b108\">\n<p class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-4157ba87 gb-headline-text\">Dylan Holloway<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve always been fascinated by the stories hidden behind a stopwatch, a finish line or a record-breaking performance. At Athletics News, I cover athletes, competitions and the moments shaping track and field, with a particular interest in the people and journeys behind the results.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.athletics.co.ke\/even-worse-than-we-thought-assefa-suffers-partial-achilles-tendon-rupture\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tigst Assefa has come close to the world marathon record, but in the final stretch her hopes faded. The Ethiopian athlete began to lose speed in the last kilometres and crossed the finish line visibly limping. At first the footage suggested cramps. However, after the finish, the director of the Berlin Marathon confirmed that Assefa [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":264763,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6802],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-264762","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-athetics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}