London Marathon live: Latest updates as Sir Mo Farah enters race for final time

Well now. Hassan is again within the lead group after making up all that distance, so there’s 5 this late battle as we go the two-hour mark.

Chepkirui is subsequent in her sights, then the opposite three are all kind of degree.

Are we going to see a debutant winner? A back-to-back winner? All choices nonetheless on the desk right here.

Kipruto, Kiptum and Legese main the best way for the boys. Kamworor is in attendance too. They are an hour and ten minutes into the race there.

But for now it’s the ladies’s race we’re centered on, with an ideal end in sight.

Sam Harrison is 12th, the lead Brit, wanting for a PB for positive as it stands.

In the lead quartet it’s Yehualaw, Jepchirchir, Chepkirui and Megertu battling away. Korir and Hassan are nonetheless simply behind.

Now the lead group is beginning to break up! Four out in entrance and the tempo is beginning to rise.

Yehualaw checks her watch, Megertu throws away her bottle. That group appears to be responding to Hassan’s push to haul them again in – they don’t need her shut for the final mile or so, which has been her sturdy level in distance racing till now, even when not in marathons.

Kelvin Kiuptum is only a second forward of the chasing pack proper now within the males’s.

Hassan has closed the hole to about 20m to the leaders within the ladies’s race – Jepchirchir is within the lead, Chepkirui second however just about degree in any case. There’s actual pleasure constructing over the top to this race and it may very well be a scintillating end.

Over the bridge come the leaders of the boys’s race. Mo Farah nearly dropping off now as he grabs his drink at first of it. Emile Cairess is simply behind him too.

Huge crowds over the bridge as regular, as we go the one-hour mark.

Hassan is closing the hole a bit to the lead runners – we’re 1:31:30 into the ladies’s Marathon and about 14km are left.

There’s a gaggle of six on the entrance proper now with Jepchirchir, Dibaba and Yehualaw all main the best way.

And in a shock twist it’s Madison de Rozario who comes across the final flip forward and he or she streaks clear to say her second London Marathon win!

Schar in second, Debrunner third and Scaroni in fourth as that group who led all through all cross the road in fast succession.

The ladies’s wheelchair race is into the final kilometres and it’s Catherine Debrunner in entrance, with Madison de Rozario, Susannah Scaroni and Manuela Schar all in shut attendance – it’s nonetheless a four-way battle however will want an enormous end from one of many others to overtake Debrunner.

The pace-setters are out of the primary group now within the ladies’s race. Still a gaggle of 5 or 6 of them on the entrance now.

In the wheelchair race, David Weir crosses the road in just below 1:33:00, fifth place as he finishes one other London Marathon.

“It is another truly dominant performance from Marcel Hug. We talk so much about David Weir on these shores but Hug is on course to become the greatest of all time,” says BBC’s Andrew Cotter on Hug’s victory.

“It is his third consecutive victory in London and his fifth overall. He was barely challenged at all during that race, which just tells of his quality.”