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The 2022 London Marathon was the 42nd running of the annual
London Marathon The London Marathon is an annual marathon held in London, United Kingdom, and is the 2nd largest annual road race in the UK, after the Great North Run in Newcastle. Founded by athletes Chris Brasher and John Disley in 1981, it is typically held ...
on 2 October 2022. Due to the
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the race was postponed from April until October to maximise the chances of a mass participation event. The elite men's and women's event were won by Kenyan Amos Kipruto and Ethiopian Yalemzerf Yehualaw respectively. The wheelchair races were won by Swiss athletes
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and
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respectively, both in course record times. Over 40,000 people finished the mass participation event.


Background

In August 2021, the 2022 London Marathon was postponed from April until October, to increase the chances that such a large event could be held safely during the
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. It was the third successive year that the race has been held in autumn. The 2023 event is scheduled to be held in April. In the United Kingdom, the event was broadcast on the
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. Every race since
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has been televised on the BBC, and in June 2022, it won the rights to broadcast the race until 2026. The winner of the men's and women's elite races each received $55,000. Prize money was also on offer for breaking a course record or beating a pre-specified time, and the total prize fund for each race was $313,000. The prize money for the wheelchair races was increased for 2022, with the winners receiving $35,000, an increase of $10,000 from the previous year. $20,000 and $15,000 was awarded to the competitors who finish second and third respectively, and for the first time the top 10 finishers all received prize money. The total prize fund for each of the wheelchair races was $199,500.


Course

The marathon distance is officially long as sanctioned by
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(IAAF). The London Marathon is run over a mainly flat course, starting in
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. The course begins at three separate points and they converge just before into the race. At just after into the race, the runners reach the 19th-century
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'' docked in
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and at about halfway into the race, the runners cross
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before heading east into
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and
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. After winding through Canary Wharf, the route returns through Shadwell on the other side of the road to which it entered before passing through
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. The runners enter the underpass in
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before running along the
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, past
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and onto
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. The course then runs parallel to St James's Park before turning onto The Mall and finishing in front of
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.


Competitors

The top three finishers in the
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elite women's race – winner
Joyciline Jepkosgei Joyciline Jepkosgei (born 8 December 1993) is a Kenyan female long-distance runner who competes over distances from 10,000 metres to the marathon. She is the former half marathon world record holder in contests with mixed-gender fields with h ...
and runners-up
Degitu Azimeraw Degitu Azimeraw Asires (born 24 January 1999) is an Ethiopian long-distance runner. In 2019, she won the Amsterdam Marathon The Amsterdam Marathon (branded Tata Consultancy Services, TCS Amsterdam Marathon for sponsorship reasons) is an annual ...
and Ashete Bekere – all competed in 2022. Yalemzerf Yehualaw, the world record holder in the
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event, competed in her first London Marathon – her time of 2:17:23 at the 2022
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was the fastest by a marathon debutant ever. Other competitors with a personal best of under 2:20:00 included Joan Chelimo Melly,
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, Alemu Megertu and Hiwot Gebrekidan. Judith Korir was a late addition to the field; she had originally intended to be a pacemaker at the event.
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and
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winner
Brigid Kosgei Brigid Jepchirchir Kosgei (born 20 February 1994) is a Kenyan long-distance runner who specialises in the marathon. She won the 2018 and 2019 Chicago Marathons, the 2019 and 2020 London Marathons and the 2021 Tokyo Marathon. Kosgei is the c ...
, who finished fourth in 2021, was scheduled to race, but withdrew due to an injury. Briton
Eilish McColgan Eilish McColgan (born 25 November 1990) is a Scottish middle- and long-distance runner. She is the 2022 Commonwealth Games 10,000 metres champion with the Games record, and 5000 metres silver medallist. McColgan is a four-time European Champio ...
, whose mother
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won the 1996 London Marathon, withdrew for medical reasons in September 2022. It would have been her first marathon competition. British runner
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, who finished tenth in the 2021 race, withdrew on the day due to illness. The elite men's race featured 2021 winner
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, as well as
Kenenisa Bekele Kenenisa Bekele ( om, Qananiisaa baqqalaa; am, ቀነኒሳ በቀለ; born 13 June 1982) is an Ethiopian long-distance runner. He was the world record holder in both the 5000-metre and 10000-metre from 2004 (5,000m) and 2005 (10,000m) unti ...
,
Birhanu Legese Birhanu Legese Gurmesa (born 11 September 1994) is an Ethiopian long-distance runner. He won the 2019 and 2020 Tokyo Marathon and finished second at the 2019 Berlin Marathon. Legese is currently part of the NN Running Team, which is managed ...
and
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, the second, third and fifth-fastest marathon runners in history respectively. Legese had won the
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twice.
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, who came third in the marathon event at the
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raced in his first London Marathon, and Phil Sesemann, the best British finisher at the 2021 race, also competed in 2022.
Vincent Kipchumba Vincent Kipchumba (born 3 August 1990) is a Kenyan long-distance runner. In 2019, he won the Amsterdam Marathon with a time of 2:05:09. In 2019, he also won the Adana Half Marathon and the Vienna City Marathon The Vienna City Marathon is an an ...
, who finished second in 2020 and 2021 was scheduled to compete, but later withdrew. Briton
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, who came third at the 2018 London Marathon and who was a pacemaker for the 2020 race, withdrew prior to the race due to a hip injury. The women's wheelchair race included 2020 winner Nikita den Boer, Merle Menje, who finished second in the 2021 event at the age of 17, four-time London Marathon winner Tatyana McFadden, and Susannah Scaroni, the record holder in the 5,000 metres event.
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, who won the 2022 Berlin Marathon on her marathon debut also competed. 2021 winner
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, as well as Madison de Rozario, who won the marathon event at the delayed 2020 Summer Paralympics and the 2018 London Marathon, both planned to compete but withdrew due to illness. The men's wheelchair competition featured 2021 winner
Marcel Hug Marcel Eric Hug (born 16 January 1986) is a Paralympian athlete from Switzerland competing in category T54 wheelchair racing events. Hug, nicknamed 'The Silver Bullet', has competed in four Summer Paralympic Games for Switzerland, winning two ...
, as well as 2019 winner Daniel Romanchuk, who also won the
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. Eight-time winner David Weir also competed.


Race summary

The wheelchair races commenced at 08:50 BST (
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), the elite women's competition began at 09:00 BST and the elite men's event started at 09:40 BST alongside the mass participation event. The races were started by England women's footballers
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, Ellen White and Jill Scott, and were run in dry conditions. The elite women's race was won by Ethiopian Yalemzerf Yehualaw, in a time of 2:17:26, the third fastest time in London Marathon history. At the age of 23, she was the youngest ever winner of the race. At the halfway point of the race, the leading pack contained Joyciline Jepkosgei, Yalemzerf Yehualaw, Alemu Megertu, Ashete Bekere, Judith Korir, Joan Melly, Asefa Kebede, and Hiwot Gebrekidan. At around , Yehualaw tripped over on a
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, but later returned to the leading group. Around into the race, Kebede, Melly, and Beker were distanced from the leading pack. Yehualaw broke away from the pack with around to go in the race. Jepkosgei finished second, and Megertu was third. Korir, Melly and Bekere also all finished the race in under 2:20:00. Rose Harvey was the fastest finishing Briton; she was tenth overall. Harvey had been assisted by pacemaker Calli Thackery until into the race. The elite men's competition was won by Kenyan Amos Kipruto, in a time of 2:04:39. The race featured British pacemakers
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and
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. The leading pack stayed together until , and consisted of Kipruto, Kenenisa Bekele, Sisay Lemma, Leul Gebresilase, Bashir Abdi, Birhanu Legese and Kinde Atanaw. Kipruto took the lead whilst completing the 24th mile in a time of 4:36. Gebresilase finished second, with Abdi third. Bekele finished fifth after gaining two places in the final miles of the event. His time of 2:05:53 was a record for an over-40-year-old at the London Marathon. Weynay Ghebresilasie was the highest finishing Briton. He was ninth, and fellow countryman Phil Sesemann was 10th. The women's wheelchair race was won by Swiss athlete Catherine Debrunner in a course record time of 1:38:24. Debrunner recovered from a crash during the race, and won the event by almost four minutes. Susannah Scaroni finished second and Eden Rainbow-Cooper was third. The men's wheelchair competition was won by Swiss athlete Marcel Hug in a course record time of 1:24:38. Hug and Daniel Romanchuk took the lead early on, and after of the event, they had a lead of around three minutes. Romanchuk finished two seconds behind Hug in second, and David Weir was third, after beating Tomoki Suzuki in a sprint finish.


Non-elite races

A mini-marathon for under-17s was held on 1 October. Over 40,000 people took part in the adult mass-participation event. The oldest runner was a 89-year-old Japanese man, and the youngest runner was 18 years old on the day of the event. During the race, one person collapsed and later died in hospital. The mass-start race included former Olympians
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, Steve Batchelor, Tom McEwen,
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and
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, who won the marathon event at the
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in Los Angeles. Other sportspeople who competed included
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driver
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, former footballer
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and former rugby player Greg O'Shea, who also won the 2019 series of '' Love Island''. Non-sporting celebrities that competed included television personality Mark Wright,
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from the band
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, actor George Rainsford,
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newsreader
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, and Jeremy Joseph, the owner of
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nightclubs. Also competing was Anoosheh Ashoori, who had been freed from an Iranian prison earlier in the year.


Results

Only the top 10 finishers in each race are listed.


Men


Women


Wheelchair men


Wheelchair women


References

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