{"id":25127,"date":"2026-01-28T01:07:49","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T01:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/london-marathon-2026-david-weir-out-to-deny-marcel-hug-record-equalling-eighth-win\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T01:07:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T01:07:49","slug":"london-marathon-2026-david-weir-out-to-deny-marcel-hug-record-equalling-eighth-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/london-marathon-2026-david-weir-out-to-deny-marcel-hug-record-equalling-eighth-win\/","title":{"rendered":"London Marathon 2026: David Weir out to deny Marcel Hug record-equalling eighth win"},"content":{"rendered":"


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The London Marathon became the first marathon to award equal prize money to wheelchair and non-disabled elite athletes in 2024.<\/p>\n

Hug, the course record holder in London, said: “For me, it is more than a race. It is an organisation that has done so much to put wheelchair racing and us, as athletes, at the very heart of the event.<\/p>\n

“It is for this reason that I am proud to have enjoyed the success I have here, and to be one win away from a legend like David Weir is incredible.”<\/p>\n

The 40-year-old and Weir are long-time rivals, and the Briton finished runner-up to Switzerland’s Hug in their most recent head-to-head at last year’s New York City Marathon.<\/p>\n

Weir’s eight London victories span 16 years, with his first coming in 2002. He finished sixth last year.<\/p>\n

Rainbow-Cooper, the 2024 Boston Marathon champion, finished fourth last year and has further competition from previous champions Manuela Schar and Tatyana McFadden as she aims for the podium.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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The London Marathon became the first marathon to award equal prize money to wheelchair and non-disabled elite athletes in 2024. Hug, the course record holder in London, said: “For me, it is more than a race. It is an organisation that has done so much to put wheelchair racing and us, as athletes, at the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25128,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cycling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25129,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25127\/revisions\/25129"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}