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London Marathon winners: Who won the race in 2018? Full list of previous winners

The 2019 London Marathon takes place this Sunday, with a host of elite athletes looking to add their names to the illustrious list of winners in the event’s 39th renewal.

Kenya’s Eliud Kipchoge has won three of the past four men’s races, and will be looking for his fifth triumph, up against two other previous winners in countrymen Wilson Kipsang and Daniel Wanjiru, who won in 2014 and 2017 respectively.

The previous two winners of the women’s race lock horns again as Kenyan duo Mary Keitany and Vivian Cheruiyot head the field.

Norway’s Ingrid Kristiansen holds the record for most triumphs in the women’s race, with four between 1984 and 1988, while four men have won the race three times: Dionicio Ceron (Mexico), Antonio Pinto (Portugal), Martin Lel (Kenya) and Kipchoge.

British wheelchair racer David Weir is the most successful athlete in the event’s history, with eight wins, while compatriot Tanni Grey-Thompson has six wins.

The elite men’s race has been won by a British athlete on six occasions, most recently by Eamonn Martin in 1993, while seven women’s races have gone to home athletes, most recently in 2005, when Paula Radcliffe won her third title.

Who won the London Marathon 2018?

Eliud Kipchoge of Kenya won the men's race in a time of two hours, four minutes and 16 seconds, while compatriot Vivian Cheruiyot won the women's race in a time of two hours, 18 minutes and 31 seconds.

Tola Shura Kitata from Ethiopa came second in the men's elite race with a time of two hours, four minutes and 49 seconds and Sir Mo Farah broke the marathon record by a British athlete as he finished third with a time – ratified more than an hour after crossing the finishing line – of two hours, six minutes and 21 seconds, beating Steve Jones' 33-year-old British record.

In the women's race, Kenyan Brigid Kosgei finished second with a time of two hours, 20 minutes and 13 seconds and Ehopian Tadelech Bekele completed the top three with a time of two hours, 21 minutes and 30 seconds.

Lily Partridge was the first British woman over the line in the elite women's race with a time of two hours, 29 minutes and 24 seconds to finish in eighth, just ahead of team mate Tracy Barlow in ninth.

Elsewhere on the track, six-time Paralympic gold medallist David Weir won the men's wheelchair race for an unprecedented eighth time in one hour, 31 minutes and 15 seconds, while Madison de Rozario won a first title in the women's wheelchair race.