After weeks of hypothesis, the line-ups for the TCS London Marathon on April 21 have been introduced with Emile Cairess and Marc Scott heading the house problem in opposition to mouth-watering worldwide entries.
Cairess ran an Olympic qualifying time of two:08:07 on his marathon debut in London final 12 months and confirmed nice kind final month with a 60:01 half-marathon PB in Naples.
Two years in the past Scott was on the rostrum on the World Indoor Championships after profitable 3000m bronze however after shelving plans to run the Seville Marathon final month he’s now making his debut at 26.2 miles within the British capital. The previous Nice North Run winner comes into the occasion with spectacular PBs reminiscent of 27:10.41 for 10,000m and 60:39 for half-marathon too.
They’re joined by Callum Hawkins, who has twice completed fourth on the World Championships and can be making his first look on the London Marathon since setting his PB of two:08:14 on the 2019 occasion.
Additionally within the home males’s line-up is Mahamed Mahamed, following his marathon debut of two:08:40 in Valencia final month. All of the athletes can be racing to earn a spot within the British marathon group for Paris following the Crew GB announcement of Phil Sesemann not too long ago.
Becky Briggs (Getty)
With Charlotte Purdue and Calli Hauger-Thackery already named within the British marathon group for the Olympics, they won’t run in London. As an alternative the British subject is led by Becky Briggs and Alice Wright, who each represented Britain within the marathon on the 2022 European Championships.
There be a world file try within the ladies’s race, too, with Tigist Assefa anticipated to steer the cost to interrupt ladies’s-only world file of two:17:01, which was set by Kenya’s Mary Keitany in London in 2017. Assefa is a former 800m runner however the Ethiopian set an astounding ladies’s world file of two:11:53 in Berlin final autumn.
Additionally within the subject are former world record-holder Brigid Kosgei, 2019 world champion Ruth Chepngetich, Olympic champion Peres Jepchirchir and 2022 London winner Yalemzerf Yehualaw. This implies three of the 4 quickest ladies in historical past are within the race.
Tigist Assefa (Getty)
Within the males’s race Cairess and Scott can be attempting to maintain up with Tamirat Tola of Ethiopia, the 2023 New York Metropolis Marathon and 2022 world champion, plus the veteran and legendary Kenenisa Bekele, the previous world 5000m and 10,000m record-holder.
Bekele in fact additionally set an M40 world file on the 2023 Valencia Marathon when he ran 2:04:19 aged 41.
Added to this are 2023 London runner-up Geoffrey Kamworor of Kenya, the two:02:55 runner Mosinet Geremew of Ethiopia and a pair of:03:11 man Alexander Mutiso Munyao of Kenya.
Tamirat Tola (Getty)
Hugh Brasher, occasion director of the TCS London Marathon, stated: “We’re in a golden age of girls’s marathon operating. When Paula Radcliffe ran her unbelievable world file of two:15:25 on the 2003 London Marathon, we needed to wait 16 years for Brigid Kosgei to beat it. However since then, an extra 4 ladies have run sooner than Paula’s time together with Tigist Assefa, who lowered the world file even additional together with her beautiful run in Berlin final 12 months. Regardless of this, the ladies’s-only world file of two:17:01, set by the good Mary Keitany right here on the London Marathon in 2017, has amazingly stayed intact.
“Nonetheless, I think that with Assefa, Kosgei and the likes of Ruth Chepngetich, Peres Jepchirchir and Yalemzerf Yehualaw within the subject and the place a complete of 10 ladies have run beneath 2:17:30, Keitany’s world file goes to be beneath severe menace on the 2024 TCS London Marathon.”
Elite ladies Tigist ASSEFA (ETH, 2:11:53 WR)Brigid KOSGEI (KEN, 2:14:04)Ruth CHEPNGETICH (KEN, 2:14:18)Tigist KETEMA (ETH, 2:16:07)Almaz AYANA (ETH, 2:16:22)Megertu ALEMU (ETH, 2:17:09)Peres JEPCHIRCHIR (KEN, 2:17:16)Joyciline JEPKOSGEI (KEN, 2:17:23)Yalemzerf YEHUALAW (ETH, 2:17:23)Sheila CHEPKIRUI (KEN, 2:17:29)Tsige HAILESLASE (ETH, 2:22:10)Susanna SULLIVAN (USA, 2:24:27)Manon TRAPP (FRA, 2:25:48)Becky BRIGGS (GBR, 2:29:04)Alice WRIGHT (GBR, 2:29:08)Anya CULLING (GBR, 2:34:45)Rachel HODGKINSON (GBR, 2:34:46)Helen GAUNT (GBR, 2:35:38)Mhairi MACLENNAN (GBR, Debut)Lucy REID (GBR, Debut)
Kenenisa Bekele (NN Operating)
Elite males Kenenisa BEKELE (ETH, 2:01:41)Mosinet GEREMEW (ETH, 2:02:55)Alexander Mutiso MUNYAO (KEN, 2:03:11)Tamirat TOLA (ETH, 2:03:39)Dawit WOLDE (ETH, 2:03:48)Kinde ATANAW (ETH, 2:03:51)Leul GEBRESILASE (ETH, 2:04:02)Geoffrey KAMWOROR (KEN, 2:04:23)Seifu TURA (ETH, 2:04:29)Daniel DO NASCIMENTO (BRA, 2:04:51)Addisu GOBENA (ETH, 2:05:01)Milkesa MENGESHA (ETH, 2:05:29)Henok TESFAY (ERI, 2:07:12)Emile CAIRESS (GBR, 2:08:07)Callum HAWKINS (GBR, 2:08:14)Hassan CHAHDI (FRA, 2:08:19)Mahamed MAHAMED (GBR, 2:08:40)Brian SHRADER (USA, 2:09:46)Weynay GHEBRESILASIE (GBR, 2:09:50)Andrew HEYES (GBR, 2:13:52)Alexander LEPRETRE (GBR, 2:15:01)Hiko Tonosa HASO (IRL, 2:15:01)Norman SHREEVE (GBR, 2:16:17)Alex MILNE (GBR, 2:16:30)William MYCROFT (GBR, 2:17:02)David BISHOP (GBR, 2:17:06)Adam BOWDEN (GBR, 2:17:18)Kieran WALKER (GBR, 2:17:30)Alexander LAWRENCE (GBR, 2:17:41)Daniel HAMILTON (GBR, 2:17:59)Dominic JONES (GBR, 2:18:15)Fraser STEWART (GBR, 2:18:34)Tom FRITH (GBR, 2:18:35)James HOAD (GBR, 2:18:38)Ryan THOMSON (GBR, 2:18:46)Martin HOARE (IRL, 2:18:57)Charlie SANDISON (GBR, 2:19:22)Paulos SURAFEL (GBR, No Time)Daniel MATEIKO (KEN, No Time)Jacob ALLEN (GBR, Debut)Kieran CLEMENTS (GBR, Debut)Marc SCOTT (GBR, Debut)Sean TOBIN (IRL, Debut)
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