London Marathon 2024 LIVE: ‘Hardest Geezer’ Russ Cook dinner amongst file 50,000 to run race

Listed below are at present’s begin occasions, with the wheelchair races kicking issues off simply after 9am on a contemporary morning in London. The elite ladies’s race will get going simply earlier than half previous 9, forward of the elite males after which the mass begin.

9.05am – Elite wheelchair males’s and ladies’s races.

9.25am – Elite ladies’s race.

10am – Elite males’s race adopted by mass begin.

A father working the TCS London Marathon to help Nice Ormond Avenue Hospital Kids’s Charity stated his younger daughter’s most cancers remedy was “1,000,000 occasions tougher” than tackling 26.2 miles.

Sky, now aged 4, was identified with medulloblastoma, a tumour in her mind, in April 2021 after her dad and mom observed she misplaced her stability incessantly and was not assembly some developmental milestones.

The London Marathon returns in 2024 with one other action-packed day of elite and charitable racing.

The annual street race within the English capital is once more held in a standard slot in April, with hundreds getting into the mass participation occasion and bidding to finish the 26.2-mile course.

Right here is the whole lot it is advisable find out about when it begins, the route it should take and how one can watch:

The poll for subsequent yr’s TCS London Marathon opened on the eve of the 2024 occasion.

A world file 578,000 folks entered the poll for this yr’s occasion, making it the most well-liked marathon on this planet.

Greater than 50,000 folks, a file quantity, are anticipated to participate on what is because of be a dry and brilliant Sunday with temperatures as much as 12C.

This yr’s race will mark the primary time that wheelchair and non-disabled athletes have obtained the identical prize cash for a marathon.

All 4 winners of the elite races will obtain £44,000, with the runner-up incomes £24,000 and third place taking residence £18,000.

Mr Cook dinner, from West Sussex, stated he deliberate to run the marathon for charity regardless of solely ending his 352-day problem on 7 April.

Though the winners as not as nicely paid as in another iconic sporting occasions, the elite males’s and ladies’s able-bodied races and males’s and ladies’s wheelchair races will all have a prize pot of $308,000 (£243,000)

Right here’s how a lot the winners will obtain:

For these impressed or eager to expertise the magic, you may apply for entry into subsequent yr’s race.

Right here’s all it is advisable know in regards to the poll and how one can get into subsequent yr’s London Marathon: