Paula Radcliffe, running with the assistance of two male pacemakers, rewrote the record books yet again with a sensational world record in the Flora London Marathon of two hours 15 minutes and 25 seconds, knocking an astonishing one minute and 24 seconds off the time she set in the Chicago Marathon last October. The men's race was won by the Olympic and world champion Gezahegne Abera in two hours seven minutes and 56 seconds, outsprinting four other athletes over the last 400 metres. 