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London Marathon

Greenwich to The Mall, London

Legendary · held by 188 collectors

The London Marathon is the world's largest annual fundraising event — a 42.195-kilometre race held annually in late April, running from Blackheath to The Mall via a course that passes the Cutty Sark, Tower Bridge, and the Embankment, with a field of 50,000 runners of whom approximately 25,000 are running for charity, collectively raising approximately £65 million annually — more than any other single-day sporting event in the world. The London Marathon's specific quality is the crowd: approximately 750,000 spectators line the route, with Tower Bridge's mile-13 crossing (where the field doubles back and runners can see both the front of the race and the tail simultaneously) and the final stretch on The Mall producing the most emotionally intense spectator environments in road running. The marathon's costume culture (where charity runners routinely compete in rhinoceros, Eiffel Tower, or Big Ben costumes) creates the world's most visually diverse field, making the London Marathon unique among the six majors in its explicit embrace of participation-for-cause as equal in value to competitive performance.

Marathon · London · Charity · Spectators · Spring