London Marathon Ever Presents every London Marathon up to and including the 2018 event. From 1981 to 2013 Chris Finill completed every race in under 3 hours, holding a Guinness World Record for this consistent high performance. Dale Lyons raced in a wheelchair in 2015. London Marathon Ever Presents The "Ever Presents" is a group of people to have run the London Marathon at each event since the first event in 1981. As of the 2018 race, there are 11 members of the group. The group was first acknowledged in 1995 after the 15th marathon with 42 members had run each event. A person
Lesotho at the 2012 Summer Olympics was not tempted to use the bailout bus, and he said cheers from the crowd encouraged him to finish the race. Competing in his first Olympics, Mosito Lehata was notable for carrying the flag of Lesotho in the closing ceremony. He qualified for the Games because his fastest time, 20:63 seconds set in the 2012 African Championships in Athletics, met the "B" standard qualifying time for his event, the men's 200 metres. The International Association of Athletics Federations applied a rule where any competitor observed jumping the start would be disqualified. A spokesperson for the Lesotho Amateur Athletics Association noted