Born: 23 February 1979

Marathon best: 1:22:09, Boston (2017)

London Marathon record: 2008 – 9th (1:37:26), 2009 – 8th (1:37:38), 2010 – 12th (2:14:22), 2012 – 15th (1:40:01), 2013 – 21st (1:45:27), 2014 – 13th (1:36:45), 2015 – 29th (1:54:23), 2016 – 11th (1:38:35), 2017 – 5th (1:31:09), 2018 – 17th (1:36:10), 2019 – 21st (1:48:47), 2021 – 16th (1:42:02), 2022 – 19th (1:41:49)

Notes: Botello is the Spanish record holder for the marathon. He injured his spine in a bicycle accident in 2002 and started racing in 2003.

Marathon best: 1:26:17

London Marathon record: N/A

Born: 9 November 1996

Marathon best: 1:36:19

London Marathon record: 2017 – 38th, 2018 – 41st, 2019 – 25th, 2021 – 14th, 2022 – 13th

Notes: Frame came second in his first international marathon at the 2022 Commonwealth Games. In 2021, he also won the Great North Run and Leeds Half Marathon.

Born: 30 March 1974

Marathon best: 1:21:14, Boston (2014)

London Marathon record: 2010 – 4th (1:40:59), 2011 – DNF, 2012 – 10th (1:36:00), 2013 – 6th (1:31:31), 2014 – 4th (1:32:43), 2015 – 7th (1:32:22), 2016 – 8th (1:35:37), 2017 – 6th (1:31:09), 2018 – 12th (1:33:32), 2020 – 6th (1:36:11), 2021 – 9th (1:35:56), 2022 – 12th (1:34:22)

Notes: The 2014 Berlin and 2015 Tokyo Marathon champion, ‘Hoki’ injured his spine in a motorcycle accident in March 2000 and began racing in 2002.

Born: 16 January 1986

Marathon best: 1:18:04 Boston (2017)

London Marathon record: 2010 – 2nd (1:36:07), 2011 – 11th (1:35:35), 2012 – 2nd (1:32:27), 2013 – 2nd (1:31:29), 2014 – 1st (1:32:41), 2015 – DNF, 2016 – 1st (1:35:19), 2017 – 2nd (1:31:07), 2018 – 2nd (1:31:15), 2019 – 2nd (1:33:42), 2020 – 3rd (1:36:08), 2021 – 1st (1:26:27), 2022 – 1st (1:24:38)

Other Abbott World Marathon Majors: Tokyo: 2019 – 1st, 2022 – 1st; Boston: 2015 – 1st, 2016 – 1st, 2017 – 1st, 2018 – 1st, Berlin: 2011 – 1st, 2012 – 1st, 2016 – 1st, 2017 – 1st, 2019 – 1st, 2021 – 1st, 2022 – 1st; Chicago: 2016 – 1st, 2022 – 1st; New York: 2013 – 1st, 2016 – 1st, 2017 – 1st, 2021 – 1st, 2022 – 1st 

Marathons in major championships: Paralympics: 2008 – DNF, 2012 – 2nd (1:30:21), 2016 – 1st (1:26:16), 2020 – 1st (1:24:02); Worlds: 2006 – 4th (1:29:57), 2011 – DNF, 2013 – 1st (1:28:44), 2015 – DNF, 2019 – 2nd (1:33:42)

Notes: Reigning champion and course record holder Hug is the undisputed number one men’s wheelchair racer in the world. He has won the last two London Marathons – setting a course record of 1:24:38 last year – and won every single Abbott World Marathon Major Marathon that he raced last year (Tokyo, Berlin, London, Chicago and New York), which led him to win the Abbott World Marathon Series XIV title (the award for the most points won across the six marathon majors). In November 2021, he broke the world record of the great Heinz Frei that had stood for 20 years. Hug is also the reigning Paralympic marathon champion and this year set a new course record at the Tokyo Marathon in 1:20:57 – and now comes to London having won Monday's Boston Marathon. Hug was born with spina bifida and grew up on a farm in Pfyn, Thurgau. He started competing at the age of 10 and is nicknamed the ‘Silver Bullet’ due to his shiny helmet.

Born: 7 June 1982

Marathon best: 1:25:06, Boston (2017)

London Marathon record: 2011 – 12th (1:43:19), 2013 –18th (1:40:54), 2014 – 19th (1:39:42), 2015 – 10th (1:34:21), 2016 – 10th (1:37:02), 2017 – 24th (1:36:57), 2018 – 13th (1:33:36), 2019 – 14th (1:39:58), 2021 – 12th (1:36:00), 2022 – 16th (1:37:16)

Notes: Lawson is an experienced British athlete who won a bronze medal in the 2018 Commonwealth Games marathon in Gold Coast, Australia.

Born: 19 January 1980

Marathon best: 1:22:10, Boston (2017)

London Marathon record: 2011 – 10th (1:34:41), 2012 – 13th (1:36:56), 2013 – 11th (1:36:34), 2014 – 6th (1:35:05), 2015 – 8th (1:33:22), 2017 – 14th (1:31:12), 2018 – 6th (1:31:24), 2019 – 7th (1:37:32), 2021 – 8th (1:35:55), 2022 – 11th (1:34:17)

Notes: Madera is a regular top 10 finisher at the London Marathon with his highest position being sixth, which he achieved in both 2014 and 2018.

Born: 1 July 1998

Marathon best: 1:37:09

London Marathon record: 12th (2022)

Born: 14 January 1986

Marathon best: 1:22:23, Duluth (2019)

London Marathon record: 2015 – 23rd (1:46:47), 2016 – 15th (1:38:38), 2017 – 19th (1:33:41), 2018 – 19th (1:36:10), 2019 – 13th (1:39:41), 2021 – 11th (1:35:57), 2022 – 9th (1:34:16)

Notes: Monahan was injured in a car accident in 2007 and started racing in 2013 when he placed third in the Dublin Marathon. He won the Belfast Marathon in 2014. His results in the London Marathon have been improving every year and last year he broke inside the top 10 for the first time, finishing ninth.

Born: 10 June 1991

Marathon best: 1:30:44, London (2022)

London Marathon record: 2022 – 5th (1:30:44)

Notes: A Dutch Paralympic hero, Plat is a double Paratriathlon gold medallist with victories at the 2016 and 2020 Paralympics. At The Tokyo 2020 Games, he also won gold medals in handcycling in both the road race and time trial disciplines. He made his marathon debut at last year’s TCS London Marathon and showed his potential by finishing fifth, losing out on fourth place in a sprint finish. He backed that up by finishing third at the 2022 New York City Marathon.

Born: 4 May 1986

Marathon best: 1:20:59, Duluth (2019)

London Marathon record: 2013 – 20th (1:44:24), 2015 – 26th (1:50:47), 2016 – 7th (1:35:33), 2017 – 7th (1:31:10), 2019 – 9th (1:37:34), 2021 – 5th (1:31:36), 2022 – 6th (1:33:05)

Notes: Pike has been steadily improving each year. He has finished fifth and sixth at his last two London Marathon appearances and was third at the 2022 Chicago Marathon. Pike injured his spine at the age of 13 when he was accidentally shot during a deer-hunting trip in Virginia. He is also a cross country skier and biathlete.

Born: 3 August 1998

Marathon best: 1:21:36, Boston (2019)

London Marathon record: 2017 – 26th (1:39:43), 2018 – 3rd (1:31:16), 2019 – 1st (1:33:38), 2021 – 2nd (1:29:27), 2022 – 2nd (1:24:40)

Other Abbott World Marathon Majors: Boston: 2019 – 1st, 2022 – 1st, Chicago: 2018 – 1st, 2019 – 1st, 2021 – 1st; New York: 2019 – 1st, 2020 – 1st

Marathons in major championships: Worlds: 2019 – 1st (1:33:38)

Notes: Romanchuk narrowly lost out in a sprint finish to Marcel Hugh at last year’s TCS London Marathon. The American, who was the dominant wheelchair racer on the marathon circuit in 2019, is currently the athlete closest to challenging Hug. He won last year’s Boston Marathon and was runner-up to Hug in Berlin, London, Chicago and New York. Born in Baltimore with spina bifida, he now lives in Urbana where he is part of the Illinois Wheelchair Racing Team. Nicknamed ‘Rocket Man’, he is known for his long, powerful arms – his wingspan measures two metres.

Born: 19 November 1986

Marathon best: 1:24:27, Boston (2017)

London Marathon record: 2014 – 11th (1:36:45), 2016 – 5th (1:35:24), 2017 – 11th (1:31:11), 2019 – 17th (1:39:59), 2020 – 9th (1:59:45,) 2021 – 15th (1:41:11)

Notes: Senbeta raced for USA at the Rio Paralympics and has a best-placed finish of 5th at the London Marathon (2016). An agricultural and bio-engineering student, he is coached by Adam Bleakney and competes for the University of Illinois Wheelchair Racing Team.

Born: 7 October 1989

Marathon best: 1:26:17

London Marathon record: N/A

Born: 27 November 1989

Marathon best: 1:29:44, Berlin (2018)

London Marathon record: 2015 – 20th (1:46:17), 2016 – 18th (1:38:40), 2017 – 17th (1:33:40), 2018 – 11th (1:33:24), 2019 – 11th (1:38:33), 2021 – 6th (1:35:54), 2022 – 10th (1:34:17)

Notes: Smith won a gold medal in the marathon at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, four years after just missing out and winning a silver medal in the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia. He has finished on the podium at an Abbott World Marathon Major event on three occasions, with second place finishes in New York in 2018 and Boston this year plus a third-place finish in Berlin in 2018. He made the Paralympic team for the first time at the Tokyo Games in 2021, becoming the first Romany gipsy to do so.

Born: 4 April 1973

Marathon best: 1:18:04, Boston (2017)

London Marathon record: 2000 – 2nd (1:41:53), 2006 – DNF, 2007 – 4th (1:33:46), 2008 – 6th (1:34:25), 2009 – 3rd (1:28:58), 2010 – 6th (1:44:11), 2012 – 11th (1:36:20), 2013 – 3rd (1:31:30), 2014 – 3rd (1:32:42), 2015 – 5th (1:31:38), 2016 – 4th (1:35:23), 2017 – 4th (1:31:08), 2018 – 24th (1:44:49), 2019 – 6th (1:37:32), 2022 – 15th (1:37:11)

Notes: Veteran Van Dyk is one of the greatest wheelchair athletes of all time, winning multiple times in New York, Boston and Chicago, and yet he has never triumphed in London. Born without lower legs because of congenital birth defects, Van Dyk was a swimmer before he took up wheelchair racing and he has also won Paralympic medals in hand cycling. He lives in Paarl with his wife Suzanne and two daughters, Lexi and Sunei.

Born: 14 June 1994

Marathon best: 1:21:52, Tokyo (2020)

London Marathon record: 2017 – 16th (1:31:12), 2018 – 8th (1:31:25), 2019 – 3rd (1:33:51), 2022 – 4th (1:30:41)

Notes: Suzuki won the 2020 Tokyo Marathon in a course record time of 1:21:52. This followed a successful 2019 when he placed third in London and second in Oita – behind Hug for the second year in a row, but ahead of Romanchuk, clocking a best of 1:22:55. He was beaten in a sprint for third place at last year’s event by David Weir. He injured his spine in a car accident when he was eight months old and took up para athletics at school.

Born: 23 November 1991

Marathon best: 1:28:01, Tokyo (2017)

London Marathon record: 2020 – 4th (1:36:08), 2021 – 7th (1:35:55), 2022 – 7th (1:34:16)

Notes: The winner of the 2017 Tokyo Marathon, Watanabe has a best-placed finish of fourth at the London Marathon, which he achieved at the 2020 elite-only race around St James’s Park.

Born: 5 June 1979

Marathon best: 1:26:17, Boston (2016)

London Marathon record: 2000 – 4th (1:47:11), 2001 – 3rd (1:50:55), 2002 – 1st (1:39:44), 2003 – 2nd (1:34:48), 2004 – 2nd (1:36:56), 2005 – 3rd (1:36:03), 2006 – 1st (1:29:48), 2007 – 1st (1:30:49), 2008 – 1st (1:33:36), 2009 – 2nd (1:28:57), 2010 – 3rd (1:37:01), 2011 – 1st (1:30:05), 2012 – 1st (1:32:26), 2013 – 5th (1:31:31), 2014 – 2nd (1:32:42), 2015 – 2nd (1:31:32), 2016 – 3rd (1:35:21), 2017 – 1st (1:31:06), 2018 – 1st (1:31:15), 2019 – 5th (1:37:3) 2020 – 2nd (1:36:06), 2021 – 3rd (1:31:33), 2022 – 3rd (1:30:41)

Other Abbott World Marathon Majors: Berlin: 2015 – 1st; New York: 2010 – 1st

Marathons in major championships: Paralympics: 2012 – 1st (1:30:20), 2016 – DNF; Worlds: 2020 (2021) – 5th (1:29:45), 2006 – DNF, 2011 – DNS, 2015 – 2nd (1:31:32), 2019 – 5th (1:37:32)

Notes: Weir is the most successful elite athlete in the history of the London Marathon, with an incredible eight victories to his name. Incredibly, 2022 will also be his 23rd consecutive London Marathon since his debut in 2000. He won the Mini London Marathon seven times as a junior and is still the only male athlete, wheelchair or able-bodied, to win both mini and senior events. He is a six-time Paralympic gold medallist, having won two at the Beijing 2008 Games and four at London 2012 Games where he was nicknamed ‘Weirwolf’. He is coached by Jenny Archer and together they run the Weir Archer Academy in Surrey. He was born with a severed spinal cord and started racing at the age of eight. Weir was third at last year’s TCS London Marathon.

Born: 3 May 1980

Marathon best: 1:46:44

London Marathon record: 2009 – 5th (1:50:43), 2013 – 4th (1:50:43), 2014 – 5th (1:51:01), 2015 – 6th (1:56:20), 2016 – 9th (1:56:46), 2019 – 11th (1:56:16), 2022 – 10th (1:47:33)

Notes: A veteran Australian who competed in her first Paralympics in Atlanta in 1996, Dawes has been selected for every Games since – a total of seven Paralympics.

Born: 11 April 1995

Marathon best: 1:36:47, Berlin (2022)

London Marathon record: 2022 – 1st (1:38:24)

Notes: Debrunner won in stunning fashion in her debut marathon at the 2022 Berlin Marathon, where she pipped compatriot Manuela Schar and the USA’s Susannah Scaroni in a sprint finish. She then went on to win in London just one week later. 

Born: 24 November 1993

Marathon best: 1:38:11, Tokyo Paralympics (2021)

London Marathon record: 2013 – 8th (1:53:44), 2018 – 1st (1:42:58), 2019 – 3rd (1:49:44)

Marathons in major championships: Paralympics: 2020 (2021) – 1st (1:38:11); Commonwealths: 2018 – 1st (1:44:00)

Notes: Reigning Paralympic champion de Rozario became the first Australian woman to win the London Marathon when she clinched victory in 2018. However, de Rozario has been unable to take part in the London Marathon for the past three years – she missed the 2020 and 2021 races due to the Covid-19 pandemic and then had to pull out with sickness last year.

Born: 20 November 1989

Marathon best: 1:45:19, Oita (2018)

London Marathon record: 2019 – 12th (1:56:19), 2021 – 7th (1:50:13), 2022 – 7th (1:47:29)

Notes: De Souza competed at the Tokyo Paralympics, where she finished 12th in the marathon and eight in both the 5000m and 1500m. De Souza’s best finish at an Abbott World Marathon Major was sixth in New York in 2019 and she set her PB in Oita in 2018. She has also placed sixth and eighth in Boston.

Born: 26 September 1989

Marathon best: 1:47:06

London Marathon record: 2014 – DNF, 2018 – 15th (2:00:18), 2020 – 4th (2:02:38), 2021 – 8th (1:56:59), 2022 – 11th (1:57:12)

Notes: Eachus was fourth in the 2020 elite-only London Marathon around St James’s Park. She competed at the Tokyo Paralympics over the 800m, 1500m, 5000m and marathon distances and has won two bronze medals at European Championships over the 1500m and 400m.

Born: 31 January 1997

Marathon best: 1:22:50, Duluth (2021)

London Marathon record: 2020 – 3rd (1:52:16), 2021 – 9th (2:03:08), 2022 – 5th (1:47:28)

Notes: Fesemyer finished third in her London Marathon debut in 2020 on the elite-only course around St James’s Park and was fifth last year. She represented the USA in the 5000m and marathon at the 2020 (2021) Paralympics in Tokyo. Born a triplet without a left leg and hip socket because of a rare congenital disease called proximal femoral focal deficiency, she got involved in wheelchair track racing in 2013, having grown up playing basketball with a prosthetic. She trains with the University of Illinois team under Adam Bleakney.

Born: 8 March 1987

Marathon best: 1:47:29, Chicago (2022)

London Marathon record: 2022 – 8th (1:47:29)

Notes: Hoang is a US Paralympian who finished second at the Chicago Marathon and third at the Boston Marathon last year.

Born: 21 April 1989

Marathon best: 1:31:30 Duluth 2019

London Marathon record: 2011 – 4th (1:46:34), 2012 – 8th (2:05:38), 2013 – 1st (1:46:02), 2014 – 1st (1:45:12), 2015 – 1st (1:41:14), 2016 – 1st (1:44:14), 2018 – 2nd (1:42:58), 2019 – 2nd (1:49:42), 2021 – 3rd (1:44:51)

Abbott World Marathon Majors record: Series X: 1st; Series XI: 2nd; Series XII: 2nd

Marathons in major championships: Paralympics: 2012 – 9th (1:58:47), 2016 – 2nd (1:38:44); Worlds: 2015 – 1st (1:41:14), 2019 – 2nd (1:49:42)  

Notes: McFadden dominated marathon racing for four years until she was forced to play second fiddle to Manuela Schär. She went undefeated in Boston, London, Chicago and New York from 2012 to 2016 and won 13 races in a row before losing in Tokyo in 2016. In 2013, she became the first athlete to win all four races in one year and repeated the feat annually until 2017. She has won four titles in London, five in Boston, nine in Chicago and five in New York. Born in Russia with spina bifida, McFadden lived in an orphanage for the first six years of her life until she was adopted by an American family from Maryland.

Born: 19 August 1994

Marathon best: 1:42:12

London Marathon record: 2021 – 2nd (1:44:51), 2022 – 4th (1:47:28)

Notes: The teenager is a rising star of Paralympic sport. She finished runner-up at the 2021 London Marathon in just her second race over the distance and was fourth last year. In 2020, she won two gold medals in the 400m and 5000m at the European Championships in Poland, as well as silver medals in the 100m and 800m. She is a former winner of the Mini London Marathon.

Born: 17 May 2001

Marathon best: 1:47:27, London (2022)

London Marathon record: 2022 – 3rd (1:47:27)

Notes: A rising star of British wheelchair racing, Rainbow-Cooper finished third in her TCS London Marathon debut last year. She also won last year’s Great North Run wheelchair race and won a silver medal in the 2022 Commonwealth Games marathon. She was born with sacral agenesis and is part of the Weir-Archer Academy.

Born: 20 February 1991

Marathon best: 1:41:39

London Marathon record: 2019 – 10th (1:52:13), 2021 – 5th (1:50:07), 2022 – 9th (1:47:32)

Notes: Rocha represented her country at the 2016 Paralympics in Rio, where she reached the final of the 1500m. She is also the first Brazilian Paralympian to compete in both the summer and winter Paralympics as she raced in three cross-country skiing events in the 2018 Paralympics in Pyeongchang.

Born: 16 May 1991

Marathon best: 1:27:31, Duluth (2021)

London Marathon record: 2013 – 7th (1:50:47), 2014 – 4th (1:51:01), 2015 – 5th (1:47:06), 2016 – 7th (1:52:50), 2017 – 3rd (1:47:37), 2018 – 3rd (1:43:00), 2019 – 13th (2:02:00), 2022 – 2nd (1:42:21)

Notes: Scaroni had the year of her life in 2022. She set a world record of 10:38:46 for the 5000m in Notwill and won her first Abbott World Marathon Major titles in Chicago and New York, securing her a first Abbott World Marathon Majors series win. The American also won her first Paralympic gold medal in the 5000m at the Tokyo Paralympics, which marked the third time she represented the USA at the Games. Now, she comes to London fresh from her win at the 2023 Boston Marathon on Monday.

Born: 5 December 1984

Marathon best: 1:28:17, Boston (2017)

London Marathon record: 2014 – 2nd (1:46:44), 2015 – 2nd (1:43:56), 2016 – 2nd (1:44:15), 2017 – 1st (1:39:57), 2018 – 4th (1:43:01), 2019 – 1st (1:44:09), 2020 – 2nd (1:41:29), 2021 – 1st (1:39:52)

Abbott World Marathon Majors record: Series X: 2nd; Series XI: 1st; Series XII: 1st; Series XIII: 1st; Series XIV: 3rd

Marathons in major championships: Paralympics: 2016 – 6th (1:38:46); Worlds: 2013 – 1st (1:49:45), 2015 – 2nd (1:43:56), 2019 – 1st (1:44:09)

Notes: Schär is the three-time London Marathon winner and world record holder. She broke her leg last year after winning the Boston Marathon, but after recovering and finishing second at the Berlin Marathon in her first race back, she then had to pull out of last year’s TCS London Marathon on the morning of the race with illness. Her interrupted 2022 meant she did not win the Abbott World Marathon Majors title for the first time in four editions, but she bounced back earlier this year to set a new course record of 1:36:43 at the 2023 Tokyo Marathon. She was injured in an accident in 1993 and started wheelchair sport at the age of 14.

Born: 18 May 1990

Marathon best: 1:35:50, Oita (2019)

London Marathon record: 2018 – 10th (1:52:19)

Notes: The winner of the 2021 Tokyo Marathon, Tsubasa finished seventh in the marathon at the Tokyo Paralympics in 2021.

Born: 15 September 1974

Marathon best: 1:34:06, Boston (2011)

London Marathon record: 2010 – 1st (1:52:33), 2012 – 2nd (1:53:04), 2014 – 3rd (1:46:45), 2015 – 7th (1:56:48), 2016 – 3rd (1:45:28), 2022 – 6th (1:47:28)

Notes: The 2010 London Marathon champion and 2011 world champion, Tsuchida won five Boston Marathons in a row from 2007 to 2011 and has also won the Tokyo title nine times. In addition, she has two Paralympic marathon medals to her name.

Born: 12 September 1986

Marathon best: 1:45:22, Oita (2018)

London Marathon record: 2019 – 14th (2:03:37), 2021 – 11th (2:06:02), 2022 – 12th (2:00:10)

Notes: Wheeler is a former Los Angeles champion who has clinched top 10 places in Chicago and New York. She suffered a spinal cord injury aged one due to physical abuse.