The 2023 London Marathon was the 43rd running of the annual

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on 23 April 2023. It was the first time since

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that the event was run in the spring, as the previous three races were run in autumn due to the

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. The elite men's and women's events were won by

Kelvin Kiptum Kelvin Kiptum Cheruiyot (2 December 1999 – 11 February 2024) was a Kenyan long-distance runner who currently holds the marathon world record. , he holds three of the seven fastest marathons in history, and was ranked first among the world's ...

and

Sifan Hassan Sifan Hassan (; born January 1993 in Ethiopia) is a Dutch middle- and long-distance runner. She is most recognized for her versatility in running championship and world-leading performances in widely disparate distances. She completed an unpr ...

in times of 2:01:25 and 2:18:33 respectively; Kiptum's time was a course record. The wheelchair men's and women's competitions were won by

Marcel Hug Marcel Eric Hug (; born 16 January 1986) is a Paralympic Games, Paralympic Track and field, athlete from Switzerland competing in category T54 (classification), T54 wheelchair racing events. Hug, nicknamed 'The Silver Bullet', has competed in fo ...

and

Madison de Rozario Madison de Rozario, (born 24 November 1993) is an Australian Paralympic athlete and wheelchair racer who specialises in middle and long-distance events. She competed at the 2008 Summer Paralympics, 2008 Beijing, 2012 Summer Paralympics, 2012 Lo ...

in course record times of 1:23:44 and 1:38:51 respectively. Around 48,000 athletes finished the mass participation event, beating the previous record set in 2019.

Background

In August 2021, race organisers confirmed that the 2023 event would take place on 23 April; the

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and 2022 events were all held in autumn due to the

. The winners of the elite events received $55,000, and prizes were given to the top 10 finishers. The total prize money for each elite event was $313,000. The prize money for the winners of the wheelchair races was increased by $10,000 to $45,000, with total prize money for each wheelchair event increased from $199,500 to $253,500. For the first time, competitors in the mass participation event could register as

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; there was no elite event for non-binary competitors. 118 non-binary competitors signed for the race. There was a virtual marathon held on the same date as the in-person event. In the United Kingdom, the races were broadcast on

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, and it was broadcast in 197 countries.

Course

The marathon distance was officially long as sanctioned by

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. The London Marathon was run over a mainly flat course, starting in Blackheath. The course began at three separate points and they converged just before into the race. At just after into the race, the runners reached the 19th-century

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'' docked in

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and at about halfway into the race, the runners crossed

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before heading east into

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and

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. After winding through Canary Wharf, the route returned through Shadwell on the other side of the road to which it entered before passing through

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. The runners entered the underpass in Blackfriars before running along the

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, past

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and onto

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. The course then ran parallel to St James's Park before turning onto The Mall and finishing in front of

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Competitors

The elite men's race featured four of the fastest five competitors in history:

Kenenisa Bekele Kenenisa Bekele Beyecha (; ; born 13 June 1982) is an Ethiopian Long-distance running, long-distance runner. He was the world record holder in both the 5000 metres, 5,000-metre and 10000 metres, 10,000-metre from 2004 until 2020. He won the go ...

Birhanu Legese Birhanu Legese Gurmesa (born 11 September 1994) is an Ethiopian long-distance runner. He won the 2019 and 2020 Tokyo Marathon and finished second at the 2019 Berlin Marathon. Legese is currently part of the NN Running Team, which is managed b ...

and

Mosinet Geremew Mosinet Geremew (born 12 February 1992) is an Ethiopian middle-distance and long-distance runner. Mosinet's career started in cross country running. He ran in the junior category at the 2010 IAAF World Cross Country Championships and placed ...

. Bekele has won multiple Olympic medals and Kiptum recorded the fastest marathon debut ever at the 2022

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Amos Kipruto Amos Kipruto (born 16 September 1992) is a Kenyan long-distance runner. He won the bronze medal in the men's marathon at the 2019 World Athletics Championships. Kipruto took victory at the 2022 London Marathon. Career In 2016, he won the Rom ...

, who won the 2022 race, also returned in 2023. Other competitors included

Tamirat Tola Tamirat Tola Abera (born 11 August 1991) is an Ethiopian Olympic and world champion long-distance runner. Hailing from the regional state of Oromia, he competes in track, road and cross country events. He won gold medal in the marathon at the ...

, who won the marathon event at the

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Geoffrey Kamworor Geoffrey Kipsang Kamworor (born 22 November 1992) is a Kenyan professional long-distance runner. He won the silver medal in the 10,000 metres at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics. Kamworor claimed victories at the World Half Marathon Ch ...

, who has won two

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Leul Gebresilase Leul Gebresilase (born 20 September 1992) is an Ethiopian long-distance runner. He won the silver medal at the 2022 London Marathon. In 2015, Gebresilase earned silver in the 5000 metres at the African Games held in Brazzaville, Congo with a ti ...

, who finished second at the 2022 London Marathon, and Vincent Kipchumba, who finished second in both 2020 and 2021. Briton

Mo Farah Sir Mohamed Muktar Jama Farah (born Hussein Abdi Kahin; 23 March 1983) is a Somali-British former long-distance runner. Considered one of the greatest runners of all time, his ten global championship gold medals (four Olympic and six World tit ...

raced in his final London Marathon, and other British athletes included Weynay Ghebresilasie, the fastest finishing Briton in 2022,

Emile Cairess Emile Michael John Cairess (born 27 December 1997) is a British long-distance runner. He won the bronze medal in the 10,000 metres at the 2019 European Under-23 Championships and a silver for the men's race at the 2022 European Cross Country C ...

, Chris Thompson and Dewi Griffiths. World record holder

Eliud Kipchoge Eliud Kipchoge (born 5 November 1984) is a Kenyan long-distance runner who competes in the marathon and formerly specialized in the 5000 metres. Kipchoge is the Athletics at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's marathon, 2016 and Athletics at th ...

did not compete in London, as he chose to race the

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instead. The elite women's race featured five runners with a

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(PB) time under 2:18, and ten runners with a PB under 2:19. Competitors included world record holder

Brigid Kosgei Brigid Jepchirchir Kosgei (born 20 February 1994) is a Kenyan long-distance runner who specialises in the marathon. She won the 2018 and 2019 Chicago Marathons, the 2019 and 2020 London Marathons and the 2021 Tokyo Marathon. Kosgei was the m ...

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champion

Peres Jepchirchir Peres Jepchirchir (born 27 September 1993) is a Kenyan professional long-distance runner who competes mainly in road running competitions. She won the gold medal in the women's marathon at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Jepchirchir was the champion a ...

and 2022 winner

Yalemzerf Yehualaw Yalemzerf Yehualaw Densa (born 3 August 1999) is an Ethiopian long-distance runner. She won the 2022 London Marathon. Yehualaw is the current world record holder in the 10 kilometres road race, sits second on the world all-time list at the h ...

. Other competitors included

Genzebe Dibaba Genzebe Dibaba Keneni ( Oromo: ''Ganzabee Dibaabaa Qananii''; Amharic: ገንዘቤ ዲባባ ቀነኒ; born 8 February 1991) is an Ethiopian middle- and long-distance runner. A 1,500 metres 2016 Rio Olympics silver medalist, she won a gold ...

, the record holder in the

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and

Almaz Ayana Almaz Ayana Eba (; , born 21 November 1991) is an Ethiopian long-distance runner. She won the gold medal in the 10,000 metres and bronze in the 5,000 metres at the 2016 Rio Olympics. Almaz is a four-time World Athletics Championships medallist ...

, who won the

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event at the

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, who won the

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and 10,000 metres events at the 2020 Olympics made her marathon debut, and

Sheila Chepkirui Sheila Chepkirui Kiprotich (born 27 December 1990) is a Kenyan middle- and long-distance runner who competed at first in the 1500 metres and 5000 metres. She won the 2024 New York City Marathon and the bronze medal in the 10,000 metres at the 2 ...

was a late addition to the field, after being unable to get a US visa to run the Boston Marathon. British competitors included Stephanie Davis,

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and

Alice Wright Alice Wright (born 3 November 1994) is an English-born long-distance runner. Early life and prep Wright represented Worcester AC as a junior athlete. She won the Worcestershire County Championships 3000 meters race in 2011, setting a personal ...

Tigist Assefa Tigst Assefa Tessema (; Oromo: Tigist Asaffaa Tasammaa; born 3 December 1996) is an Ethiopian long-distance runner and the former world record holder in the women's marathon. She has won three top-tier World Marathon Majors, two in Berlin and ...

, who won the 2022 Berlin Marathon, withdrew in March 2023 due to

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. Britons

Jess Piasecki Jess Piasecki (, born 18 April 1990) is a British long-distance runner. She competed in the senior women's race at the 2019 IAAF World Cross Country Championships held in Aarhus, Denmark. She finished in 36th place. In 2019, she won the Ústí ...

and

Charlotte Purdue Charlotte Lucy Purdue (born 10 June 1991) is a British long-distance runner who competes in the Marathon and Half Marathon, as well as cross country running for Aldershot, Farnham and District Athletics Club. After winning a number of youth ti ...

both withdrew in the same month. On 21 April, Briton

Eilish McColgan Eilish McColgan (born 25 November 1990) is a Scottish Middle-distance running, middle- and Long-distance running, long-distance runner. She is the Athletics at the 2022 Commonwealth Games, 2022 Commonwealth Games 10,000 metres champion with the ...

withdrew due to a knee injury; she had been scheduled to make her marathon debut at the event. The men's wheelchair competition featured

, who had won the previous two events. Other competitors included

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, who came second in 2022, and eight-time former winner David Weir in his 24th consecutive London Marathon. The women's wheelchair event featured 2022 winner

Catherine Debrunner Catherine Debrunner (born 11 April 1995) is a Swiss athlete competing in the T53 wheelchair division. She won five gold medals at the 2024 Paralympics in Paris including one for the T54 Marathon. Since winning at her marathondebut in the 2022 ...

, as well as former winners

Manuela Schär Manuela Schär (born December 5, 1984) is a paralympic athlete from Switzerland, competing mainly in category T54 sprint events. She has used a wheelchair since the age of 8, when a playground accident paralyzed her from the waist down. Ca ...

, Nikita den Boer,

Tatyana McFadden Tatyana McFadden (; born April 21, 1989) is an American Paralympic athlete competing in the category T54. McFadden has won twenty-two Paralympic medals across multiple Summer and Winter Paralympic Games and the Laureus World Sportsperson of ...

and

Shelly Woods Rochelle "Shelly" Woods (born 4 June 1986) is an elite British Paralympic athlete from the suburb of Layton in Blackpool, Lancashire. Woods is a T54 athlete who competes as a wheelchair racer in medium and long-distance events. She has compet ...

. Other competitors included

Susannah Scaroni Susannah Scaroni (born May 16, 1991) is an American Para-athletics, Paralympic athlete. She won the gold medal in the Athletics at the 2020 Summer Paralympics – Women's 5000 metres T54, women's 5000 meters T54 event at the 2020 Summer Paralymp ...

, who won the 2022 Chicago Marathon, and

Eden Rainbow-Cooper Eden Rainbow-Cooper (born 17 May 2001) is an elite English Paralympic athlete from Portsmouth. Rainbow-Cooper is a T54 athlete who competes as a wheelchair racer. She was born with sacral agenesis. Rainbow-Cooper began wheelchair racing in ...

, who came third in her marathon debut at the 2022 race.

Race summary

2023 London Marathon - Madison de Rozario

The wheelchair races commenced at 09:15 BST (

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), the elite women's competition began at 09:25 BST and the elite men's event started at 10:00 BST. The wheelchair races were started by Gordon Perry, who won the inaugural London Marathon wheelchair event in 1983. The elite women's race was started by former London Marathon winners

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and

Catherina McKiernan Catherina McKiernan (born 30 November 1969 in Cornafean, County Cavan) is a former long-distance runner from Ireland, who competed in the marathon, 10,000 metres and cross country running. Biography McKiernan has held the Women's national ...

, whilst the elite men's and mass participation events were started by Eliud Kipchoge. The elite and wheelchair races were run in mostly dry conditions, whilst there was heavy rain at times during the mass participation event. The elite men's race was won by Kelvin Kiptum in a course record time of 2:01:25, 16 seconds slower than Eliud Kipchoge's world record, and 72 seconds faster than Kipchoge's previous course best. At the halfway stage, the leading pack contained eight runners, and Kiptum broke away from the leading pack after . Kiptum won by nearly three minutes, and his time for the second half of the race was the fastest ever. Kiptum received $230,000 for his victory, breaking the course record and finishing quicker than 2:03:00. Geoffrey Kamworor finished second, and Tamirat Tola was third overall. Marathon debutante Emile Cairess was the top British finisher in sixth place; his time of 2:08:07 made him the third fastest Briton in history. Other Britons in the top 10 finishers included Phil Sesemann, Mo Farah and Chris Thompson. The elite women's event was won by marathon debutante Sifan Hassan in a time of 2:18:33. Brigid Kosgei withdrew with an injury in the first four minutes of the race; she completed less than . After an hour of racing, Hassan pulled up with an apparent leg injury, and she was eleven seconds behind the leading pack at half distance. Later in the race, she stopped for a second time to stretch her

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. After the race, Hassan revealed she had had a problem with her hip, and that she had not taped it up prior to the race. Hassan caught the leading pack of Sheila Chepkirui, Peres Jepchirchir, Judith Korir and Yalemzerf Yehualaw after . Towards the end, Hassan almost missed a drinks station, and afterwards she offered a drink to rival Yalemzerf Yehualaw. The race was decided in a sprint finish; Yehualaw had been dropped prior to the sprint finish. In the sprint, Hassan beat Alemu Megertu and Jepchirchir, who finished second and third respectively. Samantha Harrison was the top finishing Briton in 11th; her time was six minutes faster than her previous personal best, and was the fifth fastest time by a British woman ever. She was quicker than the qualifying time for the

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. The men's wheelchair competition was won by Marcel Hug, in a course record time of 1:23:44, 50 seconds faster than his previous course record at the event. Hug won the race by five minutes, and it was his third consecutive London Marathon victory, and fifth in total.

Jetze Plat Jetze Plat (born 10 June 1991) is a Dutch para-cyclist in the H4 class. He also competes in the paratriathlon. Career Plat was born on 10 June 1991, in Amsterdam, with two stunted legs. In 1995, Plat started using a handcycle, to cycle to sc ...

finished in second place, and Tomoki Suzuki was third. David Weir was the best finishing Briton in fifth place. The women's wheelchair race was won by Madison de Rozario in a sprint finish; the top four competitors finished within six seconds of each other. De Rozario finished in a course record time of 1:38:51, one second ahead of Manuela Schär. Catherine Debrunner finished third and Susannah Scaroni was fourth. Eden Rainbow-Cooper was the highest finishing Briton in seventh place.

Non elite races

A mini-marathon took place on 22 April, and was started by

Jake Wightman Jake Wightman (born 11 July 1994) is a British Middle-distance running, middle-distance runner who primarily competes in the 1500 metres. He won the gold medal at the 2022 World Athletics Championships, 2022 World Championships, the first global ...

, who won the 1,500 metres event at the 2022 World Athletics Championships. The events were run over distances of and , and over 8,000 children ran, the most competitors at any London mini-marathon. The main mass participation event started in waves between 10:00 and 11:30 BST. There were 49,272 starters, more than any previous London Marathon. There were expected to be around 48,000 finishers, and by 17:00 BST the event had beaten the previous record of 42,549 finishers set in 2019. The youngest competitor was 18 years and one day old, and the oldest was aged 90. Former sportspeople who competed in the marathon event included former Olympic curler

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and former England rugby union captain

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. Other celebrity competitors included presenters Chris Evans and

Adele Roberts Adele Claire Roberts (born 9 March 1979) is a British broadcaster and reality TV personality and DJ, known for her work on BBC Radio 1. Her best known television appearances were in '' Big Brother'', '' I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!,'' ' ...

Harry Judd Harry Mark Christopher Judd (born 23 December 1985) is an English musician who is the drummer for the rock band McFly. Early life and education Judd was born in Chelmsford, Essex in southern England, the youngest of three children. He is the so ...

from the band

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Marcus Mumford Marcus Oliver Johnstone Mumford (born 31 January 1987) is an American-born British singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer. He is best known as the lead singer of the folk band Mumford & Sons. He also plays a number of instruments with ...

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actor

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and 10 then current Members of Parliament, including

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. Adele Roberts broke the marathon record for a competitor running with a

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Results

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Women

Wheelchair men

Wheelchair women

References

External links

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