- 50,000 on startline to be joined by 50,000 ‘virtual’ runners
- Total of 100,000 would eclipse New York marathon of 2018
This year’s London Marathon is set to be the biggest marathon ever staged, with organisers increasingly hopeful that a full national rollout of the Covid-19 vaccine will enable 100,000 runners to take part in the race on 3 October.
A record 50,000 people will be given the opportunity to run the famous 26.2 mile course from Blackheath to the Mall in central London – up more than 7,000 on the previous number of finishers – with another 50,000 being offered the chance to run or walk the race “virtually” across the globe during a 24-hour window.
