Good luck to Advertiser area runners in London Marathon 2024

It’s the London Marathon today (Sunday, April 21) and people from across the Advertiser area are taking part.

They will be joining TV presenter Romesh Ranganathan, Golden Globe winning actor Ruth Wilson MBE, and Phil Dunster, star of Emmy award-winning show Ted Lasso, who are also running for good causes this year. Meanwhile Jamie Borthwick and Emma Barton, who play Jay and Honey in BBC On, will run in the London Marathon in character for scenes due to be aired the following day.

Paralympians Danny Crates and Richard Whitehead will also be taking part.

In the elite races, the men’s London Marathon 2024 winner will likely come down to Ethiopia’s Kenenisa Bekele and Tamirat Tola, while Ethiopia’s Tigist Assefa and Kenyan Brigid Kosgei are the women to look out for, in their elite race.

About 50,000 are expected to take part in the 26.2-mile event, which starts in Greenwich Park in south-east London before passing the Cutty Sark at mile six, passing through Rotherhithe, Bermondsey and over Tower Bridge into Wapping, Canary Wharf and round the Isle of Dogs.

With 15 miles completed, it’s then west into the City of London and around St James’s Park to finish on The Mall in front of Buckingham Palace.

Good luck to all our London Marathon runners, including:

Hannah Falla, from Newark, running in support of UK Youth.

Andy Watkins, of Newark, running for the British Heart Foundation.

Laurence Sugarman, of Southwell, running for Mencap.

Jamie Brown, of PTT in Fernwood, runing for Get Kids Going!

Adam Savage, of Newark, running for Headway.

Dave Brumpton, of North Muskham, running for the Teenage Cancer Trust.

Coverage of the event will be on BBC One from 8.30am to 2pm, and on BBC Two from 2pm to 3pm. There are also live streams from Tower Bridge and the finish line on BBC iPlayer and the BBC Sport app. The elite wheelchair field is on at 9.05am, women’s race at 9.25am and men’s race at 10am.

The ballot for the 2025 TCS London Marathon opened yesterday (Saturday, April 20) and closes on Friday, April 26.

Marathon Day next year is Sunday, April 27, 2025.