FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
MILLIONTH FINISHER IN 2016 VIRGIN MONEY LONDON MARATHON
• #oneinamillion campaign celebrates every finisher since 1981
• All finishers asked to share a selfie with their medal or
other marathon memorabilia on social media
• Unique #oneinamillion T-shirt will be available to all London
finishers
On Sunday 24 April 2016, history will be made as a runner crosses the
world-famous finish line in The Mall at the end of the Virgin Money London
Marathon to become the millionth finisher in the history of the event.
To celebrate this great milestone, the organisers have created the
#oneinamillion campaign to celebrate every runner who has successfully
completed the 26.2-mile challenge since the first race back in 1981.
Every runner who has ever finished the event is invited to share a selfie
holding their medal or other memorabilia with @LondonMarathon using the
hashtag #oneinamillion (see @LondonMarathon for examples).
A database of finishers has been created which involved manually inputting
20 years of historical results data. All #oneinamillion runners will be
able to search the database by the year (or years) they ran to find their
#oneinamillion finisher number(s).
Every finisher in the 35 previous races will be able to order a special
#oneinamillion edition T-shirt printed with their unique #oneinamillion
finisher number. The online ordering system for the #oneinamillion T-shirts
will go live on www.virginmoneylondonmarathon.com website on Friday 5
February 2016.
Dick Beardsley and Inge Simonsen, joint winners of the first London
Marathon in 1981 will have the number #oneinamillion 1 and the men's winner
on 24 April will be #oneinamillion 964334.
Runners in the 2016 Virgin Money London Marathon will be able to order
their unique #oneinamillion edition T-shirt after this year's race. All
profits from the special edition T-shirts will go to the London Marathon
Charitable Trust to fund sports facilities in London and other areas.
"We want to celebrate every member of the London Marathon family," said
Event Director Hugh Brasher (he's #oneinamillion 23967). "This is about
every single runner who has ever run the event, from club runners to our
champions and world record holders, from the charity runners who have
raised so many millions for good causes to first-timers."
Highlights of the 2016 Virgin Money London Marathon include:
• Defending champion, Ethiopia's Tigist Tufa (she's #oneinamillion 926572)
defends her title against a star-studded field that includes two-time
London champion Mary Keitany from Kenya (she's #oneinamillion 784518) and
world champion Mare Dibaba (ETH)
• Kenya's 2015 champion Eliud Kipchoge (he's #oneinamillion 926541) takes
on countrymen Wilson Kipsang (he's #oneinamillion 819371), who won in 2012
and 2014, world record holder Dennis Kimetto and New York champion Stanley
Biwott with triple Olympic track gold medallist Kenenisa Bekele (ETH) and
Eritrea's world champion Ghirmay Ghebreslassie also in the field
• British ESA astronaut Tim Peake (he's #oneinamillion 386675) runs in
space 17 years after he ran as an earthling in 1999
• Double Olympic champion Kelly Holmes makes her marathon debut twelve
years after she won two gold medals in the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens
• Hollywood A-lister Natalie Dormer (she's #oneinamillion 899834), star of
The Hunger Games and Game of Thrones, heads the team raising money for the
NSPCC, the Charity of the Year
• Chris Evans (he's #oneinamillion 953859), who made his marathon debut in
2015, runs as part of the BBC Radio 2's Children in Need team
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