2451 x 3699 px | 20,8 x 31,3 cm | 8,2 x 12,3 inches | 300dpi
Aufnahmedatum:
13. April 2014
Ort:
Tower of London, London, UK
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The London Marathon, London, UK - 13 April 2014. First run on 29 March 1981, this 34th Marathon saw the separate groups of starters: Elite Women, Elite Men, Wheelchair (Men and Women), IPC, followed by the Mass Race, racing by the iconic London landmards such as the Tower of London, Tower Bridge, Big Ben and Buckingham Palace, finishing in The Mall. Britain's Olympian Mo Farah was a strong contender finishing 8th. Wilson Kipsang won the Men's race. The London Marathon is also a large celebratory sporting festival with fun runners being sponsored. The event has raised over £450 million for charity since 1981 and holds the Guinness world record as the largest annual fund raising event in the world. Richard Whitehead MBE (born 19 July 1976) is a British athlete. He runs with prosthetic legs, as he has a double through-knee congenital amputation. He holds the world record for athletes with a double amputation, in both the full and half marathon.At the 2010 Chicago Marathon, he broke his previous world record for athletes with lower-limb amputations, with a time of 2:42:52. Whitehead was unable to compete in the marathon at London 2012 as there was no category for leg amputees, and was refused permission by the IPC to compete against upper-body amputees and so had to turn to sprinting to compete at the 2012 Paralympics, where he won the gold medal in the 200m T42 Athletics event with a world record time of 24.38 seconds. His earlier career was a swimming teacher at Clifton Leisure Centre in Nottingham. He is a former ice sledge hockey player, and competed for the GB team at the 2006 Winter Paralympics in Turin. Whitehead was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2013 New Year Honours for services to athletics. Whitehead was appointed the first-ever patron of Sarcoma UK, the bone- and soft-tissue cancer charity, on 28 January 2013. On the 21st April 2013 he competed in the London Marathon coming in 23rd place, and 16th in 2014
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