London Marathon 2025 LIVE: Start times, latest weather and pre-race favourites

Completely exhausted Joycilin Jepkosgei comes over line per second, because Sifan Hassan finishes the third.

Assefa, Olympic silver medal and others here in London last year, wins this time! He crosses the line, kiss the road and raises his hands to heaven with a big smile.

The record of Tycliffe did not crack, but she set up a new world record for women – phenomenal.

Tigst Assefa, Ethiopian former world record holder, broke clear and is now just a solo leader on the front of the women’s race while coming to an end.

It will be very close to record on the course Paul Radcliffe …

The masses began at 9.35AM behind the male elite race and are almost gender and a half, with temperatures that immediately climb through teenagers to about 16c. You need to feel nobody dressed like Big Ben or the like.

Here are some opening pictures 10k:

Kipchoge is in the middle of leading groups of nine runners on the front of the male marathon, while pushing 25km in a decent lysis, although outside the world record. Everything to fight for …

The Supreme Swiss athletter Marcel Hugs made him extraordinary five in a row in the London marathon, and he won his seventh.

Japanese Tomoki Suzuki gave a chase, but he couldn’t follow and finish a second.

The male elite race is over 10km and 15 seconds behind the world record Split. Eliud Kipchoge has been found behind the leading cooking for most of the race so far, but it briefly comes to the end as to push the pace of a notch.

Even for the Olympic Champions, the days before running the London Marathon brought a mixture of nerves and excitement. Alex Yee is not an exception. World Triathlon champion and gold medals in Paris last summer, his first attempt at the distance of the marathon will start in the house lawn, and he is open and honest about the challenge.