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Virgin Money London Marathon launches campaign to celebrate 2021 event

Melanie May | 25 August 2021 | News

A montage of runners in the 2021 Virgin Money London Marathon, creating the image of a woman running

The organisers of the 2021 Virgin Money London Marathon have today (25 August) launched a campaign celebrating this year’s return of the event.

On Sunday 3 October, the Virgin Money London Marathon will return to its central London course 889 days after it was last held in April 2019. Up to 50,000 runners will be on the traditional course from Greenwich to The Mall and up to 50,000 participants will complete the 26.2 miles on the course of their choice, anywhere in the world, between 00:00 and 23:59:59 BST.

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We Run Together celebrates the day, and includes a short film featuring the faces of 55 participants from this year’s Virgin Money London Marathon, with words written and narrated by spoken word artist and rapper John Bernard.

The participants featured in the film will all be running on Sunday 3 October.

Among those included are:

Hugh Brasher, Event Director of the Virgin Money London Marathon, said:

“Sunday 3 October will be an extraordinary day in our history and our We Run Together campaign captures perfectly how emotional and wonderful it will be.

 

“Back in 1981, my father Chris Brasher and John Disley created the London Marathon to show how the family of humankind can be united and ‘to have fun and provide some happiness and a sense of achievement in a troubled world.’ This year, that is more important than ever before.

 

“On Sunday 3 October, wherever people are running their marathon – whether it be on the streets of London, or anywhere else in the world as part of the virtual event – they will do it together. That is what makes the London Marathon so special. We are one family. We Run Together.”

Earlier this month, London Marathon Events announced that next year’s event would take place in October too. The plan is then to return to the traditional April date in 2023.

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