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The 2017 London Marathon was the 37th running of the annual marathon race in London, England, which took place on Sunday, 23 April. Mary Jepkosgei Keitany won the women's race, setting a new women-only marathon world record with a time of 2:17:01, while Daniel Wanjiru came first in the men's race in 2:05:48.
The London Marathon (also known as the TCS London Marathon for sponsorship reasons) is an annual marathon held in London, England. It is the largest marathon in the world, with over 53,700 finishers in 2024, and 840,318 applicants for the 2025 event. [ 1] Founded by athletes Chris Brasher and John Disley in 1981, it is typically held in April ...
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 ...
The Corniche promenade was to hold the road races, with the committee proposing to hold the marathon at night after the opening ceremony. [6] On 6 September 2011, London unveiled its bid for the 2017 championships with the slogan "Ready to break records." This was London's fourth bid in less than 15 years to host the event.
The women's marathon was one of the road events at the 2017 World Championships in Athletics in London. It took place on 6 August 2017 on the streets of London, and consisted of four laps of a roughly 10-kilometre (6.2 mi) course which passed several of London's landmarks. For the first time in World Championships history, the men's and women's ...
The London Marathon takes place on April 23 this year. ... and crawled the 26.2 mile marathon route in a gorilla outfit in 2017 as his alter-ego “Mr Gorilla”. ...
Marathon world record progression. Kelvin Kiptum during his world record run at the 2023 Chicago marathon with 2:00:35. Mary Keitany during her women-only world record run at the 2017 London Marathon with 2:17:01. World records in the marathon are ratified by World Athletics, the international governing body for the sport of athletics [citation ...
Mary Jepkosgei Keitany(born 18 January 1982) is a Kenyan former professional long distance runner. She was the world record holderin a women-only marathon, having won the 2017 London Marathonin a time of 2:17:01. As of November 2022, she placed fifth on the world all-time listat the marathon and eleventh on the respective world all-time listfor ...