London Marathon Breaks World Record For Most Finishers

The 2025 London Marathon group a caller world grounds for nan number of finishers contempt basking conditions during nan event's 45th edition.

At 18:35 BST connected Sunday, nan number of runners to person completed nan 26.2-mile way had surpassed nan erstwhile grounds of 55,646 group by nan New York Marathon successful November.

That tally is expected to turn further into nan nighttime arsenic much runners decorativeness connected The Mall.

Hugh Brasher, main executive of London Marathon Events, said: "The TCS London Marathon is nan world's top marathon, and it is now officially nan world's biggest marathon. It is difficult to put into words nan emotions of today.

"The support from nan hundreds of thousands lining nan streets has been unprecedented and is truthful important to those participants moving for truthful galore bully causes.

"The bully nan TCS London Marathon does is unrivalled. The emotion of this time and nan benefits that moving gives group tin alteration people's lives. We want arsenic galore group arsenic imaginable to stock that feeling, truthful if anyone has been inspired by what they person seen today, now is nan clip to participate nan ballot for nan 2026 TCS London Marathon."

More than 840,000 group applied for nan ballot to participate this year's race, breaking nan world grounds of 578,304 for nan 2024 edition.

Of UK applicants 49% were female, while location was a 105% summation successful applications from group aged betwixt 20-29.

Ethiopia's Tigst Assefa surged to triumph successful nan elite women's title successful a world grounds for a women's only field, while Kenya's Sebastian Sawe triumphed successful nan men's event.

It was a Swiss double successful nan wheelchair races for nan 2nd twelvemonth moving arsenic Catherine Debrunner collapsed her ain people grounds successful nan women's title and Marcel Hug stormed to his seventh triumph successful nan men's.

On Saturday, much than 15,000 young group competed successful nan Mini London Marathon, making it nan biggest since nan arena started successful 1986.