London Marathon 2024: Elite runners, world record bids, GB athletes to watch, celebrities and weather

Kelvin Kiptum won the London Marathon and Chicago Marathon last year, after winning his debut marathon in Valencia in 2022Tributes will be paid to 2023 winner Kelvin Kiptum, a world record could be set and famous faces will take to the start line in Sunday's London Marathon.Alongside video and spoken tributes before the start, participants will be invited to join in applause for Kiptum, who won last year's men's race in a course record two hours one minute 25 seconds.

The women's-only marathon world record of 2:17:01 set in London in 2017 is expected to come under threat, with Ethiopia's world record holderwill seek to back up his New York City Marathon victory from November and improve on his third-place finish in London last year.returns after running the third-fastest time by a British athlete in history on his London Marathon debut in 2:08:07 last year.

Golden Globe-winning actor Ruth Wilson and Ted Lasso actor Phil Dunster will both make their marathon debuts, and EastEnders actors Emma Barton and Jamie Borthwick will be running as their characters Honey and Jay.Russ Cook, also known as the 'Hardest Geezer', will join a group of young people from The Running Charity.He will do so dressed in a large green telephone costume and for the first time is joined by his daughter Isabella as they run in memory of his younger brother Steven.

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