London Marathon runners raise world record £73.5m for charity
- Organisers hail ‘largest annual one-day fundraising event’
- 44th staging of the event surpassed 2019 mark of £66.4m
The London Marathon raised a record £ 73.5m ($98.28m) for charity, race organisers said on Wednesday in what they described as the world’s largest annual one-day fundraising event.
The collection surpassed the previous world record of £66.4m, set in 2019, on 21 April when more than 53,000 runners completed the 44th London Marathon.