The London Marathon brings together the best of the world’s distance runners while also celebrating community, sportsmanship and raising money for a number of charitable organisations. During this year’s race, Ethiopian runner Tigst Assefa won the women’s race and set a women’s only world-record time of 2 hours 15 minutes and 50 seconds. The winner of the elite men’s race was Kenyan runner Sabastian Sawe who completed the course in 2 hours, 2 minutes and 27 seconds. Both the men’s and women’s wheelchair events were won by Swiss athletes, with Marcel Hug and Catherine Debrunner coming in first position in their respective races. This year marked the 45th London Marathon, with the event claiming Guinness World Records title for the largest number of finishers in a marathon.

Two runners from Univ represented Oxford in the varsity race against Cambridge during the London Marathon. An impressive 56,640 people crossed the finish line in this year’s London Marathon despite the warm weather, and Univ’s runners Dr Nikolaos Kanellakis, Stipendiary Lecturer in Pathology, and Daniel Erasmus (2024, Law, Finance), both completed the course with impressive finishing times of 2 hours 59 minutes and 2 hours 48 minutes respectively.

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