The London Marathon returns on Sunday with the usual array of elite athletes and fancy dress-wearing fun runners, but there is also a host of sports stars testing themselves against the famous ...

Kenyan Sabastian Sawe, the world’s top marathoner, gave a sheepish grin when asked if the shoes he will wear in Sunday’s London Marathon are of course record quality and could maybe deliver a world ...

The 2026 TCS London Marathon is being held this weekend, bringing tens of thousands of runners to the capital for one of the world's biggest mass‑participation sporting events. The 26.2‑mile course ...

March 23 (Reuters) - Dutch Olympic champion Sifan Hassan has withdrawn from the London Marathon due to an Achilles injury, ‌race organisers said on Monday. The 2023 winner, who suffered the injury ...

The record for the number of ballot entries for the London Marathon has been broken again after 1.3 million people have applied for the 2027 event. Last year, 1,133,813 million people applied via the ...

Before any Olympic marathoner raced through London in 2012, Lloyd Scott completed the course first. It took him six days, and he was, well, wearing a 130-pound deep-sea diving suit. For a brief ...

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The first to cross the finish line was a shepherd and former soldier, Spyridon Louis, who became a national hero when he ...