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Ballot opens for 2025 London Marathon on eve of this year’s event

Source: PA Archive

The ballot for next year’s TCS London Marathon has opened on the eve of the 2024 event.

A world record 578,000 people entered the ballot for this year’s event which takes place on Sunday, making it the most popular marathon in the world.

More than 50,000 people, a record number, are expected to take part on what is due to be a dry and bright day with temperatures up to 12C.

There will be 30 seconds of applause before Sunday’s race in memory of last year’s elite men’s race winner Kelvin Kiptum who died in

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