Everything you need to know about the 2025 London Marathon including the route, elite fields, record attempts, celebrity runners, weather forecast and how to watch on the BBC.

You can secure a place in the 2026 London Marathon by entering the ballot by clicking here. The ballot opened on Friday 25 April, two days before the 2025 edition of the race and closes on Friday 2 May 2025. The ballot results will be announced before the end of July.

Although the winners as not as well paid as in some other iconic sporting events, the elite men’s and women’s able-bodied races and men’s and women’s wheelchair races had a prize pot of $308,000 (£243,000) with the winners receiving $55k (£44k) each.