Editing London Marathon (section)

==Amateur runners==
[[File:2013 London Marathon at Victoria Embankment (1).JPG|thumb|upright=0.75|Amateur runners in the race running along [[Victoria Embankment]]]]
The race attracts amateur runners who make up the bulk of the thirty thousand or more participants; commonly running in fancy dress for charity causes.

In 2002, [[Lloyd Scott]] completed the marathon wearing a [[deep sea diving]] suit that weighed a total of {{convert|110|lb|kg|abbr=on}}, with each shoe weighing {{convert|24|lb|kg|abbr=on}}; he also set a record for the slowest London Marathon time.<ref>{{cite news |url= http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1935471.stm |title=BBC News &#124; UK &#124; Marathon man erodes lead boots  |work=[[BBC News]] |date=17 April 2002 |publisher=[[British Broadcasting Corporation|BBC]] |location=London |access-date=23 April 2012}}</ref> On 19 April 2003, former boxer [[Michael Watson]], who had been told he would never be able to walk again after a fight with [[Chris Eubank]], made headlines by finishing the marathon in six days. In 2006, Sir [[Steve Redgrave]] (winner of five consecutive Olympic gold medals) set a new [[Guinness World Record]] for money raised through a marathon by collecting £1.8&nbsp;million in sponsorship. This broke the record set the previous year by the founder of the [[Oasis Trust]], [[Steve Chalke]], who had collected over £1.25&nbsp;million. In 2011, Chalke raised a new record £2.32&nbsp;million.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oasisuk.org |title=Oasis Trust |publisher=Oasisuk.org |access-date=22 April 2012}}</ref> The £500 that Claire Squires collected before the race increased to over £1 million after she died having collapsed during the 2012 race.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Hill |first1=Amelia |title=Claire Squires: amphetamine stimulant 'had role' in runner's fatal heart attack |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/jan/30/claire-squires-runner-dmaa-fatal |access-date=8 September 2020 |work=The Guardian |date=30 January 2013}}</ref>

A small number of runners, known as the "[[London Marathon Ever Presents|Ever Presents]]", have completed each of the London Marathons since 1981. When the list was first established in 1995, there were 42. After [[2019 London Marathon|2019]], their number has shrunk to 10. At the running of the 2019 event, the oldest runner was 85-year old Kenneth Jones, whilst the youngest runner was 60-year-old Chris Finill. They are all male.<ref>{{cite web|author=Mike Peel |url=http://www.everpresent.org.uk/ |title=Ever Present Home Page |publisher=Everpresent.org.uk |access-date=14 April 2014}}</ref>