🇬🇧 The 2026 TCS London Marathon will feature a historic clash of champions as defending champion and women-only world record holder Tigst Assefa returns to face Olympic champion Sifan Hassan and World champion Peres Jepchirchir. With Hellen Obiri choosing to run London over Boston, we will also see the first time all three Olympic medalists share a start line since their dramatic showdown at the 2024 Summer Games in Paris. 🍿 The ones to watch: 🇪🇹 tigist__assefa’s women-only world record is 2:15:50. Four women in the field have personal bests faster than that. Olympic champion 🇳🇱sifanhassan is coming off two podium finishes at World Marathon Majors in 2025 with a third place finish in London and a victory at the Sydney Marathon. She won London in 2023, which was also her marathon debut. 🇰🇪 peresjepchirchirngeno is the reigning World champion from Tokyo and won this race in 2024. She showed recent sub-2:15 form with a 2:14:43 runner-up finish in Valencia last month. 🇰🇪 j...