Runners taking part have had to provide a negative lateral flow test for COVID before dropping their kit bags off at the registration centre in east London and picking up their race bibs. Traditionally competitors leave their bags at the start line on race day and collect them at the finish, but the organisers have made changes to reduce the risk of infections.
Medals that were put around runners' necks at the finish line will now be inserted into their kitbags. She added: "The runners have had to adapt, they're going to be starting in waves of about a thousand at a time, with a buffer zone between each wave. Events like this starting up again are going to make a huge difference. It's such a unique, amazing day, it encompasses the spirit of London and it's very, very special.
Among those taking part will be year-old Scott Green who has run miles this week from Torquay to London to raise funds for the mental health charity MIND. Hayden was football mad and he loved Man Utd. I'll be thinking of him all the way round. They have also helped fund tree-planting projects in east London and Kenya which absorb carbon dioxide. There have also been changes to improve the experience of runners at the back of the field after some of 's slowest runners reported being insulted by officials and finding the clean-up operation taking place ahead of them.
There will be strong team of 'tailwalkers' who will walk the course at eight-hour pace accompanied by a DJ providing motivational music. There will also be additional officials on hand about every m from 16 miles onwards to support any runners struggling to complete the course. Junior doctor Phil Sesemann turned 29 on Sunday and marked the occasion with a seventh-place finish in the London Marathon. Joyciline Jepkosgei takes world-record holder Brigid Kosgei's London Marathon title as the full-scale race returns.
Switzerland's Marcel Hug and Manuela Schar both set course records as they win the men's and women's London Marathon wheelchair races. Ethiopia's Sisay Lemma lands the biggest win of his career in the men's race, beating off competition from Kenya's Vincent Kipchumba and Ethiopia's Mosinet Geremew.
Joyciline Jepkosgei beat world record-holder Brigid Kosgei to take the London Marathon women's title. Manuela Schar sets a new London Marathon course record as she takes the title in the women's wheelchair race. Marcel Hug sets a London Marathon course record and wins the men's wheelchair with a 'dominant' performance.
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Athletics Results Calendar. Top Stories. Australia stun Pakistan to reach final. Wales secure play-off place at least. Arthur resigns as Yorkshire chief exec. London Marathon Junior doctor finishes as top British male on remarkable marathon debut. Jepkosgei and Lemma win London Marathon titles in rapid times.
Schar wins women's wheelchair race in record time. When Observer writer and Olympic gold medalist Chris Brasher ran the New York marathon in , he was inspired to begin a similar race in Britain. With the help of then editor Donald Trelford and members of the Greater London Council, two years later he got he got his wish.
Originally planned to be 26 miles, it was extended by yards so the runners would reach the finish line in front of the royal box. American Dick Beardsley and Norwegian Inge Simonsen were first over the line - they won the men's title holding hands.
Twenty-two of the original runners - the 'ever presents' - are still competing.
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