There shall be 20 athletes within the ladies’s elite race and 43 within the males’s.
Nice Britain’s Becky Briggs and Alice Wright will take part within the ladies’s race after competing within the marathon on the 2022 European Athletics Championships.
Becoming a member of them are Anya Culling, Rachel Hodgkinson, Helen Gaunt, Mhairi Maclennan and Lucy Reid.
Ethiopia’s new world document holder Tigst Assefa, Kenya’s trio of Brigid Kosgei, Ruth Chepngetich and Olympic champion Peres Jepchirchir, and Ethiopia’s 2020 London Marathon champion Yalemzerf Yehualaw will all be there.
They are going to purpose to interrupt the ladies’s solely world document – the quickest time by a girl in a marathon that was not a mixed-gender occasion – set by Kenya’s Mary Keitany in 2017 (two hours 17 minutes and one second).
Within the males’s race, Emile Cairess returns after turning into the third-fastest Briton on his London Marathon debut final 12 months. He’s joined by Callum Hawkins, who completed fourth on the World Championships.
Compatriot Marc Scott, a 3,000m bronze medallist on the 2022 World Indoor Championships – will make his marathon debut, as will Mahamed Mahamed.
The elite males’s race is headlined by Ethiopia’s Tamirat Tola, who’s the New York Metropolis Marathon champion, Mosinet Geremew, who’s the seventh-fastest man in historical past, and Kenya’s Alexander Mutiso Munyao.
Within the wheelchair races, Britain’s David Weir – essentially the most adorned athlete within the occasion’s historical past with a complete of eight wins – is about to compete in his twenty fifth consecutive London Marathon.