The London Marathon takes place in the present day and the ‘Hardest Geezer’ Russ Prepare dinner, the endurance athlete who not too long ago ran the size of Africa, can be among the many file variety of folks participating within the 26-mile run.
Greater than 50,000 elite and charitable runners are taking to the streets of the capital on what’s forecast to be a dry and shiny Sunday with cool temperatures of 12C. This yr’s race will mark the primary time that wheelchair and non-disabled athletes have obtained the identical prize cash for a marathon.
A world file 578,000 folks entered the poll for this occasion, making it the most well-liked marathon on this planet. There can be a bunch of celebrities together with EastEnders forged members Emma Barton and Jamie Borthwick who will run as a part of a storyline during which their characters Honey and Jay run in reminiscence of Jay’s late spouse, Lola (performed by Danielle Harold), who died of a mind tumour in 2023.
Comply with all the newest updates from the London Marathon under.
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British duo shine in males’s race
In excellent news for British operating, Emile Cairess and Mahamed Muhamed end third and fourth – setting the second and third quickest instances in British marathon operating historical past behind solely Mo Farah – they usually have completed sufficient to ebook their locations on the Paris Olympics this summer season.
Lawrence Ostlere21 April 2024 12:10
Alexander Mutiso Munyao wins London Marathon!
Alexander Mutiso Munyao falls to his knees and marks a cross on his chest. It’s by far the most important win of the 27-year-old’s life, and is made all of the extra poignant by the demise of his teammate and final yr’s winner, Kelvin Kiptum.
Lawrence Ostlere21 April 2024 12:07
Alexander Mutiso Munyao closes in on males’s marathon victory
Within the males’s version, Kenya’s Alexander Mutiso Munyao and the nice Kenenisa Bekele pulled clear to make it a two-horse race, and now Munyao has left Bekele behind on Victoria Embankment and is nearing victory…
Lawrence Ostlere21 April 2024 12:02
Peres Jepchirchir wins London Marathon and breaks world file
Jepchirchir collapses in a heap with emotion. Her time is confirmed as 2hr 16min 16sec, breaking the ladies’s-only world file by 45 seconds.
Lawrence Ostlere21 April 2024 11:50
Peres Jepchirchir wins London Marathon and breaks world file!
Peres Jepchirchir storms away from her fellow leaders within the entrance quartet! She clinches victory in a world file time, which can be confirmed shortly. The Kenyan is the reigning Olympic champion and can go down as one of many best marathon runners of all time – and that is one other particular second.
Tigst Assefa was the favorite, however can solely make the rostrum in a surprising race.
Lawrence Ostlere21 April 2024 11:46
David Weir: ‘I simply needed to be on the rostrum’
Right here’s the nice David Weir reflecting on a third-placed end in his twenty fifth London Marathon:
Lawrence Ostlere21 April 2024 11:31
London Marathon 2024
Behind the elite runners, the plenty are properly into their race in the present day…
Lawrence Ostlere21 April 2024 11:26
Girls’s race set for world file
The lead quartet within the ladies’s elite race – Tigst Assefa, Peres Jepchirchir, Joyciline Jepkosgei and Megertu Alemu – are beneath world file tempo. One of many 4 is nearly actually going to make historical past in the present day.
Lawrence Ostlere21 April 2024 11:23
Eden Rainbow-Cooper takes sixth in ladies’s wheelchair race
A tricky race for Britain’s Eden Rainbow-Cooper, and a good outcome following her Boston win.
Lawrence Ostlere21 April 2024 11:17
Tigst Assefa pushing onerous for ladies’s world file
Ethiopia’s Tigst Assefa has moved again to the entrance of the ladies’s elite race in an effort to hold the tempo excessive. Ideally she’d nestle in behind a few of her rivals to shelter from the wind in a race the place each second counts, however she will’t afford to have any gradual (used advisedly) kilometres. Her aim? To interrupt 2hr 17min 01sec.
Lawrence Ostlere21 April 2024 11:10
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