“The assist from the lots of of 1000’s lining the streets has been unprecedented and is so essential to these individuals working for therefore many good causes.
“The nice the TCS London Marathon does is unrivalled. The sensation of today and the advantages that working offers folks can change folks’s lives. We wish as many individuals as doable to share that feeling, so if anybody has been impressed by what they’ve seen at present, now’s the time to enter the poll for the 2026 TCS London Marathon.”
Greater than 840,000 folks utilized for the poll to enter this 12 months’s race, breaking the world document of 578,304 for the 2024 version.
Of UK candidates 49% have been feminine, whereas there was a 105% improve in purposes from folks aged between 20-29.
Ethiopia’s Tigst Assefa surged to victory within the elite girls’s race in a world document for a girls’s solely area, whereas Kenya’s Sebastian Sawe triumphed within the males’s occasion.
It was a Swiss double within the wheelchair races for the second 12 months working as Catherine Debrunner broke her personal course document within the girls’s race and Marcel Hug stormed to his seventh victory within the males’s.
On Saturday, greater than 15,000 younger folks competed within the Mini London Marathon, making it the largest because the occasion began in 1986.
