Olympic fourth-placer Cairess hopes to make his mark within the British capital as lots of the nation’s main distance runners deal with 26.2 miles on April 27
After ending fourth within the Olympic marathon final summer season, Emile Cairess will lead the home problem on the TCS London Marathon on April 27.
Eilish McColgan, Charlotte Purdue, Rose Harvey, Jack Rowe, Mahamed Mahamed, Phil Sesemann and Alex Yee are additionally among the many entries, plus David Weir and Eden Rainbow-Cooper within the wheelchair races.
Cairess has had a meteoric rise since making his debut over 26.2 miles on the 2023 London Marathon the place he completed sixth in 2:08:07, turning into the quickest British debutant of all time over the well-known distance.
The 27-year-old went up one other degree once more in 2024. First he stormed by way of the sector within the closing levels of the 2024 TCS London Marathon to complete third total. It was solely the second time a British male athlete had completed on the rostrum (exterior the para occasions) this century, after Mo Farah’s third place in 2018. What’s extra, Cairess’s ending time of two:06:46 positioned him second behind Farah on the UK all-time record.
Emile Cairess (Getty)
Then eventually 12 months’s Paris Olympic Video games the place once more he discovered internal reserves of power to return by way of the sector on that gruelling marathon course to complete fourth total, Britain’s greatest lead to an Olympic marathon since Jon Brown’s two fourth locations at Sydney 2000 and Athens 2004.
Now Cairess is trying to proceed his ascendancy on the 2025 London Marathon, the place Farah’s British file of two:05:11 might properly be underneath menace.
Cairess mentioned: “I had an important 12 months in 2024 with some actually constructive outcomes. My focus is all the time on getting the perfect out of myself. My runs on the TCS London Marathon and on the Paris Olympic Video games had been actually satisfying and exhibits the arduous work is paying off.
“I like racing the TCS London Marathon as a result of it brings collectively the perfect athletes on the planet. I need to be racing these guys on the large events and London gives that chance. I’ve three marathons of expertise now and I’m nonetheless studying in regards to the occasion, which makes me much more excited and constructive for the long run. I’m wanting ahead to placing in a superb block of coaching and seeing what I can do on Sunday 27 April.”
Amongst these Cairess can be lining up alongside is fellow Brit and Olympic Video games triathlon champion Alex Yee, who’s making his marathon debut; Olympic marathon champion, Tamirat Tola of Ethiopia, and defending London Marathon champion, Alex Mutiso of Kenya.
Emile Cairess and Mahamed Mahamed (LM Occasions)
Different Brits within the subject will embody two additional Paris Olympians: Mahamed, who was fourth in final 12 months’s TCS London Marathon, and Sesemann.
Marc Scott will return to London after making his marathon debut eventually 12 months’s London Marathon the place he completed eleventh, whereas Jack Rowe, the winner of the previous two editions of The Massive Half, will make his debut over 26.2 miles.
McColgan will make her much-anticipated marathon debut within the elite girls’s race after recovering from an injury-hit variety of years. The 34-year-old, whose mum, Liz, received the London Marathon in 1996, was scheduled to compete for the primary time over the marathon distance in 2023, off the again of her well-known gold medal within the 10,000m on the 2022 Commonwealth Video games in Birmingham. However accidents have delayed that marathon debut and now she is wanting ahead to lastly displaying what she will be able to do on the well-known London course.
Jack Rowe and Eilish McColgan (Graham Smith)
McColgan mentioned: “I’m actually wanting ahead to creating my marathon debut in London this 12 months. After a tricky 12 months of harm, I’m excited to lastly toe the road and begin the following chapter of my profession on the roads.
“I’ve all the time had such unbelievable assist on the streets of London when racing over the 10km and half marathon occasions, so I can’t wait to expertise what the total TCS London Marathon ambiance has in retailer.”
Different British girls racing embody Harvey, who completed final 12 months’s Paris Olympic marathon regardless of sustaining a damaged leg in the course of the race; Purdue, the third-fastest British feminine marathoner of all time; Phily Bowden, who went ninth on the all-time British record when she ran 2:25:47 on the 2024 BMW Berlin Marathon; and Lucy Reid, who ran 2:26:35 on her marathon debut in Malaga in December.
Rose Harvey (Mark Shearman)
Brits within the wheelchair races embody Weir, racing the London Marathon for an unbelievable 26th time in a row. The 45-year-old, who has received the London Marathon a file eight instances, introduced that the Paris Paralympic Video games could be his final monitor competitors, however his ardour for racing on the roads exhibits no signal of slowing down and he confirmed he’s nonetheless very a lot aggressive on the world stage by ending second on the 2024 TCS New York Metropolis Marathon.
Within the girls’s occasion, Rainbow-Cooper, who received her first Abbott World Marathon Main final 12 months when she tamed the well-known hills of the Boston Marathon, can be trying to problem once more on the London course. The 23-year-old, who competed at her first Paralympic Video games final summer season, has a best-placed end of third on the London Marathon from 2022.
British males
- Emile CAIRESS (Private greatest 2:06:46)
- Mahamed MAHAMED (PB 2:07:05)
- Philip SESEMANN (PB 2:08:02)
- Jonathan MELLOR (PB 2:09:06)
- Dewi GRIFFITHS (PB 2:09:49)
- Weynay GHEBRESILASIE (PB 2:09:50)
- Jake SMITH (PB 2:11:00)
- Marc SCOTT (PB 2:11:19)
- Luke CALDWELL (PB 2:11:33)
- Dan NASH (PB 2:12:59)
- Andrew HEYES (PB 2:13:52)
- Alexander LEPRETRE (PB 2:15:01)
- David BISHOP (PB 2:15:19)
- Logan SMITH (PB 2:15:49)
- William MYCROFT (PB 2:15:54)
- James HOAD (PB 2:16:29)
- Alex MILNE (PB 2:16:30)
- Chris THOMAS (PB 2:16:32)
- Carl AVERY (PB 2:17:01)
- Sean HOGAN (PB 2:17:02)
- Alex YEE (Debut)
- Jonathan DAVIES (Debut)
- Jacob ALLEN (Debut)
- Jack ROWE (Debut)
British girls
- Charlotte PURDUE (PB 2:22:17)
- Rose HARVEY (PB 2:23:21)
- Phily BOWDEN (PB 2:25:47)
- Lucy REID (PB 2:26:35)
- Louise SMALL (PB 2:29:33)
- Holly ARCHER (Debut)
David Weir (London Marathon)
British wheelchair males
- David WEIR
- John Boy SMITH
- Simon LAWSON
- Sean FRAME
- Michael McCABE
British wheelchair girls
- Eden RAINBOW-COOPER
- Jade JONES-HALL
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