Those events will be started by Gordon Perry, the winner of the first wheelchair race held in London 40 years ago - while world 1500m champion Jake Wightman will officially start the biggest ever Mini London Marathon on Saturday. The world's most lucrative wheelchair events see the return of course record holders and defending champions Marcel Hug and Catherine Debrunner.īritain's eight-time winner David Weir and Eden Rainbow-Cooper also start, with a record total prize pot of $253,500 (£204,138) on offer. Mary Keitany's 2017 London Marathon course record of two hours 17 minutes one second remains the quickest time in an all-women race - but Kosgei set the outright women's record of 2:14:04 in 2019 in Chicago.Īmong the other Britons, Emile Cairess makes his debut after matching Farah's British 10km record last year, while compatriots Dewi Griffiths, Chris Thompson, Samantha Harrison and Alice Wright are also in action. I want to defend my title and I'm ready to do my best." On the potential for a record-breaking race, Ethiopia's Yehualaw said: "I hope we will run a course record, a women's only world record. Reigning Olympic 5,000m and 10,000m champion Sifan Hassan, marathon record holder Brigid Kosgei, the unbeaten Olympic champion Peres Jepchirchir and last year's winner Yalemzerf Yehualaw are all present in another stacked elite field. 'This is the last marathon journey' - Farah looks ahead to London race "I have shed a lot of tears in recent days." "There have been a few factors - a bad storm - over the past few weeks and this knee thing is just the last crack in the armour," McColgan said. However, British women's half marathon record holder Eilish McColgan - who like Farah was forced to pull out of last year's race - has had to further postpone her full marathon debut because of a knee problem. London is special for how everybody comes together and supports you." "Without the crowd and the support it wouldn't be the same. I love that I'm able to come back here and have my last race here," he added. "It's going to be my last-ever marathon, and the end of my career really," Farah told BBC Sport. The 10-time global track champion will be joined by four of the five fastest marathon runners in history - in addition to 2022 winner Amos Kipruto - with only world record holder Eliud Kipchoge, the official starter of the 2023 event, absent from the line-up. Great Britain's Mo Farah is expecting an "emotional" day in London after announcing that this year's race will be his last over the 26.2-mile distance as he begins to think about retirement. The men's and women's elite races are bursting with quality, with many of the fastest runners in history set to take to London's streets. Farah's farewell, McColgan out - and will we see a world record? Amos Kipruto and Mo Farah will run the elite men's race, but Eilish McColgan has withdrawn from the women's event, in which Yalemzerf Yehualaw attempts to defend her title Here's everything you need to know about the 2023 London Marathon. Live coverage of this year's race, which returns to its traditional spring date for the first time since the Covid-19 pandemic, begins on BBC One, BBC iPlayer and online from 08:30 BST on Sunday. Many will do so in fancy dress, others have world records in their sights all will be cheered along the familiar crowd-lined streets.
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