2016 London Marathon 2016 London Marathon The 2016 London Marathon was held on 24 April 2016. It was the 36th running of the annual mass-participation marathon race and the third World Marathon Major of the year. The men's elite race was won by Kenyan Eliud Kipchoge and the women's race was won by Kenyan Jemima Sumgong. The men's wheelchair race was won by Marcel Hug from Switzerland and the women's wheelchair race was won by American Tatyana McFadden. The London Marathon is run over a largely flat course around the River Thames, and spans 42.195 kilometres (26 miles and 385 yards). The route
Slow marathon Mihret Kebede created the project as part of a residency with Deveron Arts (now Deveron Projects). The artist had wanted to walk the 5850 miles from Ethiopia to Scotland, but this was not possible because of physical difficulties such as crossing deserts as well as closed borders and visa restrictions. Kebede calculated that if 225 people each walked 26 miles together they would have travelled the distance between Ethiopia and Scotland; in response she developed an accumulative marathon, which involved a 26-mile walk in and around the town of Huntly, and a parallel walk in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The inaugural