London Marathon 2025: elite races and more – live

It’s not Denise, it’s Richard Whitehead starting this race, but the effect is similar.

The wheelchair races are massed on the start line, the gun to be fired by Denise Lewis. To do what she did, before lottery funding, is so badass it deserves its own category, and she announces, in her capacity as chair of UK Athletics, that London will be bidding to host the 2026 World Athletics Championships.