London Marathon 2023: Everything you need to know about this year's race

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Runners pursuing the London Marathon decorativeness connected the mall

Date: Sunday, 23 April Times: 09:15 BST wheelchair races, 09:25 elite women, 10:00 elite men and masses
Coverage: Live connected BBC TV, BBC iPlayer, BBC Sport website & app from 08:30 with sum of the decorativeness enactment connected integer services until 18:00

The endless miles, exhausted legs and copious amounts of carbohydrates person each led to this. The London Marathon is astir here.

More than 45,000 runners, each with their ain reasons and motivations, are expected to tackle the 26.2 miles, raising millions of pounds for foundation successful the process.

Many volition bash truthful successful fancy dress, others person satellite records successful their sights; each volition beryllium cheered on the acquainted crowd-lined streets.

Live sum of this year's race, which returns to its accepted outpouring day for the archetypal clip since the Covid-19 pandemic, begins connected BBC One, BBC iPlayer and online from 08:30 BST connected Sunday.

Here's everything you request to cognize astir the 2023 London Marathon.

Farah's farewell, McColgan retired - and volition we spot a satellite record?

Amos Kipruto, Mo Farah, Eilish McColgan, Yalemzerf Yehualaw

The men's and women's elite races are bursting with quality, with galore of the fastest runners successful past acceptable to instrumentality to London's streets.

Great Britain's Mo Farah is expecting an "emotional" time successful London aft announcing that this year's contention volition beryllium his past implicit the 26.2-mile region arsenic helium begins to deliberation astir retirement.

The 10-time planetary way champion volition beryllium joined by 4 of the 5 fastest marathon runners successful past - successful summation to 2022 victor Amos Kipruto - with lone satellite grounds holder Eliud Kipchoge absent from the line-up.

"It's going to beryllium my last-ever marathon, and the extremity of my vocation really," Farah told BBC Sport.

"London is location for me. I emotion that I'm capable to travel backmost present and person my past contention here," helium added. "Without the assemblage and the enactment it wouldn't beryllium the same. London is peculiar for however everybody comes unneurotic and supports you."

However, British women's fractional marathon grounds holder Eilish McColgan - who similar Farah was forced to propulsion retired of past year's contention - has had to further postpone her afloat marathon debut due to the fact that of a genu problem.

"There person been a fewer factors - a atrocious tempest - implicit the past fewer weeks and this genu happening is conscionable the past ace successful the armour," McColgan said. "I person shed a batch of tears successful caller days."

'This is the past marathon journey' - Farah looks up to London race

Reigning Olympic 5,000m and 10,000m champion Sifan Hassan, marathon grounds holder Brigid Kosgei, the unbeaten Olympic champion Peres Jepchirchir and past year's victor Yalemzerf Yehualaw are each contiguous successful different stacked elite field.

On the imaginable for a record-breaking race, Ethiopia's Yehualaw said: "I anticipation we volition tally a people record, a women's lone satellite record. I privation to support my rubric and I'm acceptable to bash my best."

Mary Keitany's 2017 London Marathon people grounds of 2 hours 17 minutes 1 2nd remains the quickest clip successful an all-women contention - but Kosgei acceptable the outright women's grounds of 2:14:04 successful 2019 successful Chicago.

Among the different Britons, Emile Cairess makes his debut aft matching Farah's British 10km grounds past year, portion compatriots Dewi Griffiths, Chris Thompson, Samantha Harrison and Alice Wright are besides successful action.

The world's astir lucrative wheelchair events spot the instrumentality of people grounds holders and defending champions Marcel Hug and Catherine Debrunner.

Britain's eight-time victor David Weir and Eden Rainbow-Cooper besides start, with a grounds full prize cookware of $253,500 (£204,138) connected offer.

Those events volition beryllium started by Gordon Perry, the victor of the archetypal wheelchair contention held successful London 40 years agone - portion satellite 1500m champion Jake Wightman volition officially commencement the biggest ever Mini London Marathon connected Saturday.

Inspiring stories, personage runners, grounds attempts & protests - what other to ticker retired for

A runner dressed arsenic a teddy carnivore passes done Parliament Square

Behind the exhausting gait acceptable by the leaders travel thousands of inspiring individuals who marque the London Marathon a peculiar occasion.

This year's authoritative contention foundation is Great Ormond Street Hospital, which cares for earnestly sick children and young people.

Among those raising wealth volition beryllium Sam Wilson Hartles, who wanted to springiness backmost to the foundation which cared for his champion person Luke's son, Ralphie, aft helium was diagnosed with a benignant of humor cancer.

Among the celebrated faces taking portion is Radio 1 presenter and DJ Adele Roberts - little than a twelvemonth aft she was fixed the all-clear pursuing attraction for bowel cancer.

Roberts, who has lived with a stoma for 18 months, has acceptable herself the situation of becoming the fastest pistillate with an ileostomy, by completing the region successful nether 4 hours.

She volition not beryllium the lone 1 eyeing a satellite grounds successful London.

In each determination are 73 authoritative Guinness World Record attempts this year, ranging from the fastest marathon carrying a household appliance, to the fastest antheral dressed arsenic a three-dimensional dinosaur, and the fastest pistillate successful a non-racing wheelchair.

Training for the London Marathon portion fasting for Ramadan

Other celebrated faces you tin expect to spot see Mumford & Sons frontman Marcus Mumford, moving for the Grenfell Foundation, erstwhile England rugby national skipper Chris Robshaw and Winter Olympic curling golden medallist Eve Muirhead.

For the archetypal time, a non-binary sex enactment is featured among the wide information constituent of the race, which lawsuit manager Hugh Brasher said is simply a "significant measurement forward" for the event.

Many runners person had to transportation retired their grooming for the marathon portion fasting for Ramadan.

Middle-distance Olympic champion Hassan, who has been fasting portion preparing for her archetypal marathon, said: "It has been truly hard. I'm truthful grateful to person water, to eat. It is precise beauteous to bash Ramadan and running. It makes you beardown mentally, it besides makes maine grateful for life."

Meanwhile, spectators person been advised by contention manager Brasher to debar the Parliament Square area, wherever an Extinction Rebellion protestation is scheduled to instrumentality place.

Brasher said this week that helium has received "unique" assurances from the organisation that Sunday's planned protestation volition not disrupt the contention - nevertheless Just Stop Oil has said it plans to "continue disrupting taste and sporting events".

Will the upwind clasp out?

The runners person done each they tin to hole themselves for Sunday's run. But volition the upwind beryllium benignant to them?

The forecast is presently mixed, with unreality isolated showers and a gentle breeze predicted for the morning.

There is simply a 70% accidental of rainfall erstwhile the archetypal races get nether mode aft 09:00 BST. However, it should crook adust with sunny spells arriving aboriginal on.