2023 London Marathon

, the location of the finish of the race In August 2021, race organisers confirmed that the 2023 event would take place on 23 April; the 2020, 2021 and 2022 events were all held in autumn due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The winners of the elite events received $55,000, and prizes were given to the top 10 finishers. The total prize money for each elite event was $313,000. The prize money for the winners of the wheelchair races was increased by $10,000 to $45,000, with total prize money for each wheelchair event increased from $199,500 to $253,500. For the first time, competitors in the mass participation event could register as non-binary; there was no elite event for non-binary competitors. 118 non-binary competitors signed for the race. There was a virtual marathon held on the same date as the in-person event. In the United Kingdom, the races were broadcast on BBC One, and it was broadcast in 197 countries. The London Marathon was run over a mainly flat course, starting in Blackheath. The course began at three separate points and they converged just before into the race. At just after into the race, the runners reached the 19th-century clipper Cutty Sark docked in Greenwich and at about halfway into the race, the runners crossed Tower Bridge before heading east into Shadwell and Canary Wharf. After winding through Canary Wharf, the route returned through Shadwell on the other side of the road to which it entered before passing through Tower Hill. The runners entered the underpass in Blackfriars before running along the Thames Embankment, past Westminster and onto Birdcage Walk. The course then ran parallel to St James's Park before turning onto The Mall and finishing in front of Buckingham Palace. ==Competitors==

won the elite men's event.|alt=Black man in a blue top running won the elite women's event.|alt=Black woman in a green top running The elite men's race featured four of the fastest five competitors in history: Kenenisa Bekele, Kelvin Kiptum, Birhanu Legese and Mosinet Geremew. Bekele has won multiple Olympic medals and Kiptum recorded the fastest marathon debut ever at the 2022 Valencia Marathon. Amos Kipruto, who won the 2022 race, also returned in 2023. Chris Thompson and Dewi Griffiths. World record holder Eliud Kipchoge did not compete in London, as he chose to race the 2023 Boston Marathon instead. Competitors included world record holder Brigid Kosgei, 2020 Summer Olympics champion Peres Jepchirchir and 2022 winner Yalemzerf Yehualaw. Other competitors included Genzebe Dibaba, the record holder in the 1,500 metres and Almaz Ayana, who won the 10,000 metres event at the 2016 Summer Olympics. British competitors included Stephanie Davis, On 21 April, Briton Eilish McColgan withdrew due to a knee injury; she had been scheduled to make her marathon debut at the event. The men's wheelchair competition featured Marcel Hug, who had won the previous two events. Other competitors included Daniel Romanchuk, who came second in 2022, and eight-time former winner David Weir in his 24th consecutive London Marathon. Other competitors included Susannah Scaroni, who won the 2022 Chicago Marathon, and Eden Rainbow-Cooper, who came third in her marathon debut at the 2022 race. ==Race summary==

won the wheelchair men's event.|alt=White man dressed in black in a black wheelchair won the wheelchair women's event.|alt=White woman dressed in black in a black wheelchair The wheelchair races commenced at 09:15 BST (UTC+1), the elite women's competition began at 09:25 BST and the elite men's event started at 10:00 BST. The wheelchair races were started by Gordon Perry, who won the inaugural London Marathon wheelchair event in 1983. The elite and wheelchair races were run in mostly dry conditions, whilst there was heavy rain at times during the mass participation event. The elite men's race was won by Kelvin Kiptum in a course record time of 2:01:25, 16 seconds slower than Eliud Kipchoge's world record, and 72 seconds faster than Kipchoge's previous course best. At the halfway stage, the leading pack contained eight runners, and Kiptum broke away from the leading pack after . Kiptum won by nearly three minutes, The elite women's event was won by marathon debutante Sifan Hassan in a time of 2:18:33. she completed less than . Hassan caught the leading pack of Sheila Chepkirui, Peres Jepchirchir, Judith Korir and Yalemzerf Yehualaw after . The men's wheelchair competition was won by Marcel Hug, in a course record time of 1:23:44, 50 seconds faster than his previous course record at the event. and Tomoki Suzuki was third. The women's wheelchair race was won by Madison de Rozario in a sprint finish; the top four competitors finished within six seconds of each other. The events were run over distances of and , and over 8,000 children ran, the most competitors at any London mini-marathon. The main mass participation event started in waves between 10:00 and 11:30 BST. There were 49,272 starters, more than any previous London Marathon. There were expected to be around 48,000 finishers, and by 17:00 BST the event had beaten the previous record of 42,549 finishers set in 2019. The youngest competitor was 18 years and one day old, and the oldest was aged 90. Former sportspeople who competed in the marathon event included former Olympic curler Eve Muirhead and former England rugby union captain Chris Robshaw. == Results ==

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