The brand new entry requirements for Championship spots are barely tougher to get than in earlier years
Qualification occasions for Championship locations on the 2025 TCS London Marathon have been lowered.
Over the previous couple of years, women and men needed to run a sub-2:40/3:14 marathon or a sub-1:12:30/1:28 half-marathon to safe a Championship spot on the occasion.
Subsequent 12 months’s occasions are barely tougher to get, with qualification requirements being a sub-2:38/3:10 marathon or a sub-1:11.30/1:26 half-marathon.
To get a Championship place at subsequent 12 months’s London Marathon you should’ve secured the usual at a course licensed by the Affiliation for Worldwide Marathons and Distance Races (AIMS), be registered with a nationwide governing physique and have set the time between January 1 and December 31 this 12 months.
London Marathon (Getty)
If somebody doesn’t qualify for a Championship spot then they will additionally apply for a Good For Age place to race over 26.2 miles within the British capital.
The London Marathon may even be introducing adjustments round Championship entries for its 2026 version.
Organisers have introduced that the full variety of Championship locations for 2026 will probably be capped at 1000 – 500 males and 500 ladies – and assembly the qualification time won’t mechanically safe a spot.
If there are greater than 1000 candidates for Championship locations, these will probably be allotted on a ‘quickest first’ foundation and the slower runners below the qualification time will probably be moved to the Good For Age begin.
Good For Age runners will nonetheless be on a quickest first system with 6000 locations – 3000 males and 3000 ladies – obtainable total.
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