London Marathon organisers consider this yr’s elite discipline is probably the most spectacular ever assembled within the sport’s historical past with Eliud Kipchoge among the many huge names trying to money in
A record-breaking 56,000 may end Sunday’s TCS London Marathon and whereas the overwhelming majority will simply need to make it to the end line whereas elevating big funds for charities, there’s some huge cash on supply for the professionals on the entrance of the sector.
Final yr London made the massive step to supply equal prize swimming pools for all 4 races – together with the wheelchair occasions – and the sums stay the identical for 2025.
Organisers consider they’ve assembled the best elite discipline within the sport’s historical past, regardless of ladies’s world file holder Ruth Chepngetich and legend Kenenisa Bekele withdrawing prior to now few days.
Icon Eliud Kipchoge is amongst these lining up within the males’s race, alongside 2024’s quickest marathoner Sebastian Sawe, Olympic champion Tamirat Tola and up to date half marathon file breaker Jacob Kiplimo.
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Triple Olympic medalist Sifan Hasan, who gained this occasion in dramatic trend two years in the past, is among the many favourites within the ladies’s occasion together with former world file holder Tigst Assefa.
Among the many home pursuits are debutants Alex Yee and Eilish McColgan.
Prize cash, which is paid in {dollars} as a result of it’s a part of the World Marathon Majors collection, begins from $1,000 for twelfth place as much as $55,000 for the winners.
However that cash is supplemented by hefty look charges for the star names with time bonuses – capped at $150,000 – additionally on supply.
The boys’s course file of two:01:25 was set by Kelvin Kiptum in 2023, with Peres Jepchirchir operating a ladies’s file 2:16:16 in 2024 – lower than a minute behind Paula Radcliffe’s 2003 file of two:15:25, which was recorded when the race was nonetheless combined.
Swiss Marcel Hug set a males’s wheelchair file of 1:23:44 in 2023 with compatriot Manuela Schar holding the ladies’s mark of 1:39:52 from 2017.
And quick occasions might be on the playing cards once more this yr with the climate forecast predicting mild winds and sunny spells – although the temperature may creep into the 20s by the point these again the sector have reached the latter phases.
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London Marathon 2025 prize cash
(equal prize cash for all 4 elite races)
twelfth – $1,000 (£752)
eleventh – $1,500 (£1,128)
tenth – $2,000 (£1,504)
ninth – $3,000 (£2,255)
eighth – $4,000 (£3,008)
seventh – $5,000 (£3,760)
sixth – $7,500 (£5,640)
fifth – $10,000 (£7,520)
4th – $15,000 (£11,280)
third – $22,500 (£16,920)
2nd – $30,000 (£22,559)
1st – $55,000 (£41,358)
