{"id":118957,"date":"2026-04-25T12:39:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T12:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/25\/london-marathon-2026-route-map-elite-fields-british-athletes-weather-records-coverage\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T12:39:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T12:39:09","slug":"london-marathon-2026-route-map-elite-fields-british-athletes-weather-records-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/25\/london-marathon-2026-route-map-elite-fields-british-athletes-weather-records-coverage\/","title":{"rendered":"London Marathon 2026: Route map, elite fields, British athletes, weather, records & coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The 46th London Marathon is set to be another record-breaker, with more than 59,000 people expected to complete the 26.2-mile course on Sunday.<\/b><\/p>\n

The 2025 event set a world record for the number of finishers, despite hot conditions, with a total of 56,640 entrants completing the distance.<\/p>\n

Before this year’s race, organisers confirmed discussions are ongoing over holding a two-day event in 2027,<\/a> which event director Hugh Brasher says could allow for 100,000 finishers and raise over \u00a3130m for charity.<\/p>\n

This year’s elite races feature all four defending champions, as Sabastian Sawe, Tigst Assefa, Marcel Hug and Catherine Debrunner return to defend their titles.<\/p>\n

Britons Mahamed Mahamed, Phil Sesemann, Patrick Dever, Rose Harvey, Eilish McColgan, Jess Warner-Judd, David Weir and Eden Rainbow-Cooper will be among those hoping to star on home soil.<\/p>\n

Four-time Olympic champion Sir Mo Farah and England’s Women’s Rugby World Cup winner Ellie Kildunne have the honour of officially starting the event in Greenwich Park, live on the BBC.<\/p>\n

Here’s everything you need to know.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The 46th London Marathon is set to be another record-breaker, with more than 59,000 people expected to complete the 26.2-mile course on Sunday. The 2025 event set a world record for the number of finishers, despite hot conditions, with a total of 56,640 entrants completing the distance. Before this year’s race, organisers confirmed discussions are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":118958,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118957"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}