the elite races for the london marathon are over. kenya's peresjepchirchir set a new women's only world record as she stormed to victory at the 2024 london marathon. jepchirchir crossed the line in two hours, 16 minutes and sixteen seconds to brek the record by 45 seconds. second—place tigst assefa and joyciline jepkosgei in third were also within that time. in the men's, alexander mutiso munyao made it a kenyan double, beating the legendary kenenisa bekele. britain's emile cairess was third. meanwhile, the wheelchair races were dominated by swiss duo marcel hug and catherine debrunner. yet another victory for max verstappen in what appears to be an unstoppable run to a fourth formula one world title. he started from pole position and went on to win the chinese grand prix in shanghai ahead of mclaren�*s lando norris and verstappen�*s teammate sergio perez. the red bull driver is already 25 points clear at the top of the drivers�* standings after four wins from the season's first five races.