First held in the London Marathon in 1981 and about 7,000 runners participated then. The number of participants has increased every year since, and the race is now the largest marathon in the world with 578,374 participants in the event last year, with 65,725 of them registering to run. Officially, 54,000 were on the course when the race took place on April 21 and they were Alexander Mutoko and Peres Jepchirchir, both from Kenya, who were the fi…
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First held in the London Marathon in 1981 and about 7,000 runners participated then. The number of participants has increased every year since, and the race is now the largest marathon in the world with 578,374 participants in the event last year, with 65,725 of them registering to run. Officially, 54,000 were on the course when the race took place on April 21 and they were Alexander Mutoko and Peres Jepchirchir, both from Kenya, who were the fi…