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The London Marathon, one of the six World Marathon Majors,[1] has been contested by men and women annually since 29 March 1981. Set over a largely flat course around the River Thames, the marathon is 26.2 miles (42.2 km) in length[2] and generally regarded as a competitive and unpredictable event, and conducive to fast times.[3]
The inaugural marathon had 7,741 entrants, 6,255 of whom completed the race.[4] The first Men's Elite Race was tied between American Dick Beardsley and Norwegian Inge Simonsen, who crossed the finish line holding hands in 2 hours, 11 minutes, 48 seconds.[5] The first Women's Elite Race was won by Briton Joyce Smith in 2:29:57.[5] In 1983, the first wheelchair races took place. Organized by the British Sports Association for the Disabled (BASD), 19 people competed and 17 finished. Gordon Perry of the United Kingdom won the Men's Wheelchair Race, coming in at 3:20:07, and Denise Smith, also of the UK, won the Women's Wheelchair Race in 4:29:03.[6]
Twenty athletes representing the United Kingdom have won the London Marathon a total of forty times. The most recent win by a British athlete was in the 2012 London Marathon, by David Weir in the Men's Wheelchair Race. It was his sixth win in London. Kenya has the second largest number of winning athletes. Seven Kenyan men and six Kenyan women have been victorious a total of sixteen times, all in the able-bodied category. Eleven men, including those from the wheelchair races, have won the marathon more than once, Weir's six wins being the record. Sixteen women have been winners more than once; Tanni Grey-Thompson won the women's wheelchair race six times between 1992 and 2002.
Course records for the London Marathon have been set ten times in the men's race, seven times in the women's race, fifteen times in the men's wheelchair race, and thirteen times in the women's wheelchair race. World records for marathon running have been set four times. Khalid Khannouchi, representing the United States, set the men's world record in 2:05:38 in 2002. The following year, British runner Paula Radcliffe set the women's world record in 2:15:25, which also stands as the current course record in the Women's Elite Race. Eliud Kipchoge of Kenya set the course record at 2:03:05 in 2016 in the Men's Elite Race. Kurt Fearnley set the Men's Wheelchair Race course record at 1:28:57 in 2009. The course record for the Women's Wheelchair Race was set by American athlete Tatyana McFadden in 2013, with 1:46:02.
Elite race – men's winners
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| Year | Athlete | Nationality | Time (h:m:s) |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | Dick Beardsley |  United States
|
2:11:48 | Course record; tied with Inge Simonsen |
| 1981 | Inge Simonsen |  Norway
|
2:11:48 | Course record; tied with Dick Beardsley |
| 1982 | Hugh Jones |  United Kingdom
|
2:09:24 | Course record |
| 1983 | Mike Gratton | United Kingdom
|
2:09:43 | |
| 1984 | Charlie Spedding | United Kingdom
|
2:09:57 | |
| 1985 | Steve Jones | United Kingdom
|
2:08:16 | Course record |
| 1986 | Toshihiko Seko |  Japan
|
2:10:02 | |
| 1987 | Hiromi Taniguchi | Japan
|
2:09:50 | |
| 1988 | Henrik Jørgensen |  Denmark
|
2:10:20 | |
| 1989 | Douglas Wakiihuri |  Kenya
|
2:09:03 | |
| 1990 | Allister Hutton | United Kingdom
|
2:10:10 | |
| 1991 | Yakov Tolstikov |  Soviet Union
|
2:09:17 | |
| 1992 | António Pinto |  Portugal
|
2:10:02 | |
| 1993 | Eamonn Martin | United Kingdom
|
2:10:50 | |
| 1994 | Dionicio Cerón |  Mexico
|
2:08:53 | |
| 1995 | Dionicio Cerón | Mexico
|
2:08:30 | Second victory |
| 1996 | Dionicio Cerón | Mexico
|
2:10:00 | Third victory |
| 1997 | António Pinto | Portugal
|
2:07:55 | Course record; second victory |
| 1998 | Abel Antón |  Spain
|
2:07:57 | |
| 1999 | Abdelkader El Mouaziz |  Morocco
|
2:07:57 | |
| 2000 | António Pinto | Portugal
|
2:06:36 | Course record; third victory |
| 2001 | Abdelkader El Mouaziz | Morocco
|
2:07:09 | Second victory |
| 2002 | Khalid Khannouchi | United States
|
2:05:38 | World marathon record |
| 2003 | Gezahegne Abera |  Ethiopia
|
2:07:56 | |
| 2004 | Evans Rutto | Kenya
|
2:06:18 | |
| 2005 | Martin Lel | Kenya
|
2:07:35 | |
| 2006 | Felix Limo | Kenya
|
2:06:39 | |
| 2007 | Martin Lel | Kenya
|
2:07:41 | Second victory |
| 2008 | Martin Lel | Kenya
|
2:05:15 | Course record; third victory |
| 2009 | Samuel Wanjiru | Kenya
|
2:05:10 | Course record |
| 2010 | Tsegaye Kebede |  Ethiopia
|
2:05:19 | Provisional Result |
| 2011 | Emmanuel Mutai | Kenya
|
2:04:40 | Course record |
| 2012 | Wilson Kipsang | Kenya
|
2:04:44 | |
| 2013 | Tsegaye Kebede | Ethiopia
|
2:06:04 | Second victory |
| 2014 | Wilson Kipsang | Kenya
|
2:04:29 | Course record; second victory |
| 2015 | Eliud Kipchoge | Kenya
|
2:04:42 | |
| 2016 | Eliud Kipchoge | Kenya
|
2:03:05 | Course record; second victory |
Elite race – women's winners
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Wheelchair race – men's winners
[edit]| Year | Athlete | Nationality | Time (h:m:s) |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | Gordon Perry | United Kingdom
|
3:20:07 | Course record |
| 1984 | Kevin Breen |  Ireland
|
2:38:40 | Course record |
| 1985 | Chris Hallam | United Kingdom
|
2:19:53 | Course record |
| 1986 | Gerry O'Rourke | Ireland
|
2:26:38 | |
| 1987 | Chris Hallam | United Kingdom
|
2:08:34 | Course record; second victory |
| 1988 | Ted Vince |  Canada
|
2:01:37 | Course record |
| 1989 | David Holding | United Kingdom
|
1:59:31 | Course record |
| 1990 | Hakan Ericsson |  Sweden
|
1:57:12 | Course record |
| 1991 | Farid Amarouche |  France
|
1:52:52 | Course record |
| 1992 | Daniel Wesley | Canada
|
1:51:42 | Course record |
| 1993 | George Vandamme |  Belgium
|
1:44:10 | Course record |
| 1994 | David Holding | United Kingdom
|
1:46:06 | Second victory |
| 1995 | Heinz Frei |  Switzerland
|
1:39:14 | Course record |
| 1996 | David Holding | United Kingdom
|
1:43:48 | Third victory |
| 1997 | David Holding | United Kingdom
|
1:42:15 | Fourth victory |
| 1998 | Heinz Frei | Switzerland
|
1:35:18 | Course record; second victory |
| 1999 | Heinz Frei | Switzerland
|
1:35:27 | Third victory |
| 2000 | Kevin Papworth | United Kingdom
|
1:41:50 | |
| 2001 | Denis Lemeunier | France
|
1:42:37 | |
| 2002 | David Weir | United Kingdom
|
1:39:44 | |
| 2003 | Joel Jeannot | France
|
1:32:02 | Course record |
| 2004 | Saúl Mendoza | Mexico
|
1:36:56 | |
| 2005 | Saúl Mendoza | Mexico
|
1:35:51 | Second victory |
| 2006 | David Weir | United Kingdom
|
1:29:48 | Course record; second victory |
| 2007 | David Weir | United Kingdom
|
1:30:51 | Third victory |
| 2008 | David Weir | United Kingdom
|
1:33:56 | Fourth victory |
| 2009 | Kurt Fearnley |  Australia
|
1:28:57 | Course record |
| 2010 | Josh Cassidy | Canada
|
1:35:21 | |
| 2011 | David Weir | United Kingdom
|
1:30:05 | Fifth victory |
| 2012 | David Weir | United Kingdom
|
1:32:26 | Sixth victory |
| 2013 | Kurt Fearnley | Australia
|
1:31:29 | Second victory |
| 2014 | Marcel Hug | Switzerland
|
1:32:41 | |
| 2015 | Joshua George | United States
|
1:31:31 | |
| 2016 | Marcel Hug | Switzerland
|
1:35:19 | Second victory |
Wheelchair race – women's winners
[edit]| Year | Athlete | Nationality | Time (h:m:s) |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | Denise Smith | United Kingdom
|
4:29:03 | Course record |
| 1984 | Kay McShane | Ireland
|
3:10:04 | Course record |
| 1985 | Kay McShane | Ireland
|
2:47:12 | Course record; second victory |
| 1986 | Kay McShane | Ireland
|
3:02:40 | Third victory |
| 1987 | Karen Davidson | United Kingdom
|
2:45:30 | Course record |
| 1988 | Karen Davidson | United Kingdom
|
2:41:45 | Course record |
| 1989 | Josie Cichockyj | United Kingdom
|
3:03:54 | |
| 1990 | Connie Hansen | Denmark
|
2:10:25 | Course record |
| 1991 | Connie Hansen | Denmark
|
2:04:40 | Course record; second victory |
| 1992 | Tanni Grey | United Kingdom
|
2:17:23 | |
| 1993 | Rose Hill | United Kingdom
|
2:03:05 | Course record |
| 1994 | Tanni Grey | United Kingdom
|
2:08:26 | Second victory |
| 1995 | Rose Hill | United Kingdom
|
2:17:02 | Second victory |
| 1996 | Tanni Grey | United Kingdom
|
2:00:10 | Course record; third victory |
| 1997 | Monica Wetterstrom | Sweden
|
1:49:09 | Course record |
| 1998 | Tanni Grey | United Kingdom
|
2:02:01 | Fourth victory |
| 1999 | Monica Wetterstrom | Sweden
|
1:57:38 | Second victory |
| 2000 | Sarah Piercy | United Kingdom
|
2:23:30 | |
| 2001 | Tanni Grey-Thompson | United Kingdom
|
2:13:55 | Fifth victory |
| 2002 | Tanni Grey-Thompson | United Kingdom
|
2:22:51 | Sixth victory |
| 2003 | Francesca Porcellato |  Italy
|
2:04:21 | |
| 2004 | Francesca Porcellato | Italy
|
2:04:58 | Second victory |
| 2005 | Francesca Porcellato | Italy
|
1:57:00 | Third victory |
| 2006 | Francesca Porcellato | Italy
|
1:59:57 | Fourth victory |
| 2007 | Shelly Woods | United Kingdom
|
1:50:40 | |
| 2008 | Sandra Graf | Switzerland
|
1:48:04 | Course record |
| 2009 | Amanda McGrory | United States
|
1:50:39 | |
| 2010 | Wakako Tsuchida | Japan
|
1:52:33 | |
| 2011 | Amanda McGrory | United States
|
1:46:31 | Course record; second victory |
| 2012 | Shelly Woods | United Kingdom
|
1:49:10 | Second victory |
| 2013 | Tatyana McFadden | United States
|
1:46:02 | Course record |
| 2014 | Tatyana McFadden | United States
|
1:45:12 | Course record; second victory |
| 2015 | Tatyana McFadden | United States
|
1:41:14 | Course record; third victory |
| 2016 | Tatyana McFadden | United States
|
1:44:14 | Fourth victory |
Victories by nationality
[edit]| Country | Men's race |
Women's race |
Men's wheelchair |
Women's Wheelchair |
Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom
|
6 | 7 | 14 | 15 | 42 |
| Kenya
|
10 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 18 |
| Norway
|
1 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| Ireland
|
0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 |
| Ethiopia
|
3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| United States
|
2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 9 |
 Germany
|
0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Mexico
|
3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| Italy
|
0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| Portugal
|
3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Switzerland
|
0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| Canada
|
0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| Denmark
|
1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| France
|
0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| Japan
|
2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Sweden
|
0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Australia
|
0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Morocco
|
2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
 Poland
|
0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
 Russia
|
1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Belgium
|
0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
 China
|
0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Spain
|
1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
References
[edit]- General
- "Race Results and Reports". Virgin Money. Retrieved 15 June 2016.
- Specific
- ^ "World Marathon Majors". World Marathon Majors. Retrieved 12 May 2009.
- ^ Steve Cram (presenter) (26 April 2009). "The 2009 London Marathon Highlights". British Broadcasting Corporation. BBC Two.
{{cite episode}}: Missing or empty|series=(help) - ^ Cram, Steve (19 May 2009). "London's best by far". BBC Sport. Retrieved 19 May 2009.
- ^ "History of the London Marathon – In the Beginning". London Marathon. Retrieved 12 May 2009.
- ^ a b "1981 Race Report". London Marathon. Retrieved 12 May 2009.
- ^ "1983 Race Report". London Marathon. Retrieved 12 May 2009.
External links
[edit]- Virgin London Marathon Official London Marathon website
- London Marathon World Marathon Majors website
- London Marathon BBC London minisite