{"id":426063,"date":"2026-05-05T06:49:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T06:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/426063\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T06:49:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T06:49:11","slug":"london-marathon-record-of-1-33-million-people-apply-for-2027-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/426063\/","title":{"rendered":"London Marathon: Record of 1.33 million people apply for 2027 event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A record number of people have applied to participate in the 2027 London Marathon via the public ballot. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In total, 1,338,544 people have applied for the event which will take place on 25 April, breaking last year&#8217;s record of 1,133,813. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 2026 marathon had a record 59,830 finishers and was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cp3pnje23d2o\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the biggest annual one-day fundraising event in the world.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This astonishing total of applicants firmly establishes London as the world&#8217;s most sought-after marathon,&#8221; said Hugh Brasher, chief executive of London Marathon Events. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Nothing else comes close. Our mission is to inspire people of every age and ability to get active &#8211; and these extraordinary numbers show the massive draw and power of the London Marathon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The ballot results will be released early in July, with places allocated through a random draw. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A record number of people have applied to participate in the 2027 London Marathon via the public ballot.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":426064,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":["post-426063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}