This year’s London Marathon will go down in history when its millionth finisher passes through The Mall and across the finish line on Sunday 24 April.
The event, which first started in 1981, currently boasts 964,333 finishers. Last year alone, 40,000 participated, a record attendance for the capital’s marathon.
Every runner who has finished any of the previous 35 races will be able to order a #oneinamillion edition T-shirt with their finish number on from 5 February.
Dick Beardsley and Inge Simonse, joint winners of the first London Marathon, will have number one, while those battling it out to be this year’s champion will earn number 964,334.
One man likely to feature a t the front of the field is 2015 winner Eliud Kipchoge, who’ll be returning to the field alongside countryman Wilson Kipsang, winner in 2012 and 2014.
Remarkably, British astronaut Tim Peake will also be running the event from the International Space Station, via a treadmill and a screen with a virtual reality London Marathon route on it.
Game of Thrones and The Hunger Games star Natalie Dormer will be making her London Marathon comeback as she heads the team raising money for the NSPCC’s ChildLine. You can read a full interview with Dormer in the next issue of Men’s Running.
