RunPod Sprint! Record Breaking London Marathon
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🗓️ 28 April 2026
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
It's official... this years London Marathon was the biggest in history!
Guinness World Records has confirmed that it set a new world record for the most finishers in a marathon, with 59,830 runners crossing the line.
Alongside this milestone, GWR also verified 38 individual record-breaking performances across the field - from elite world records to standout costume and inspiring human interest attempts.
Not only was it the biggest ever... it pushed the limits of physical human achievement!
Sabastian Sawe became the first athlete to run a sub-two-hour marathon in a competitive race. The 31-year-old Kenyan crossed the line to win in one hour 59 minutes 30 seconds!
Jenni brings you all the record breaking facts to keep you inspired and get you to sign up for next years race.
New guest episode dropping this Friday.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:11.4 | Hello there and welcome to this week's Run Pod Sprint, the quick hit bonus episode where we just take one moment. |
| 0:18.7 | And by the way, what you hear today is mighty impressive. |
| 0:22.5 | I'm Jenny Faulkner and today we're talking about Sunday's London Marathon. It didn't just happen. |
| 0:28.6 | It basically rewrote what humans can do. So let's start here. A marathon? Under two hours? Is that |
| 0:36.4 | even possible? It's the thing that people have argued about for decades. Well, yes, it is possible. |
| 0:43.6 | Kenyan athlete Sebastian Solway crossed the line in one hour, 59 minutes and 30 seconds. That is the first official sub two hour marathon ever. Not a lab experiment, not paced by lasers, |
| 0:59.3 | a real race, real pressure, real chaos out there on the course. And he really, really did it. And just |
| 1:05.9 | to make it more ridiculous, another runner also dipped under two hours. And it was his first ever marathon. Yomi Kajalcha |
| 1:14.8 | from Ethiopia came in just 11 seconds later. So they're just like buses. You wait in eternity |
| 1:21.3 | and then two come along at once. Oh yeah. And then don't forget the women as well. On the |
| 1:25.7 | women's side, equally outrageous. Tisa Seifa defended her title and then don't forget the women as well. On the women's side, equally outrageous. |
| 1:28.7 | Tisa Seifa defended her title and then broke the women-only world record in 21541. Oh, and by the way, |
| 1:37.1 | three women went under 216 in the same race. That's never happened before, ever. Clearly Sunday |
| 1:43.7 | was a very special day. But then this is before, ever. Clearly, Sunday was a very special day, |
| 1:45.8 | but then this is London. And of course, it wasn't just elite athletes redefining physics. |
| 1:52.3 | Nearly 60,000 people finished, a new world record for the biggest marathon ever. It's not just a race |
| 2:00.3 | anymore, it's like a moving city. And then on top |
| 2:03.2 | of that, there were records and there was a bit of craziness. Someone ran it in crocs, someone knitted |
| 2:09.0 | a scarf while running, someone did it in a full suit, and then we all know Jordan Adams, he carried a |
| 2:15.0 | fridge. But of course, this was always going to happen. In total, |
| 2:18.8 | over 38 Guinness World Records set in one day. So let's just recap on this. Humans brought |
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