Competitors fill the streets of the capital during the 45th TCS London marathon

An overview of the 45th TCS London marathon on Sunday.

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00:00it was a big and eventful day for london and perhaps a heartwarming one too among the participants

00:12were david stankham and sergio aguirre whose daughters seven-year-old elsie and nine-year-old

00:21alice were murdered in the southport mass stabbing last summer they were raising money for projects in

00:32memory of their daughters and six-year-old bb king who was also killed as a taylor swift

00:40themed dance class in july among this year's celebrity participants was radio presenter

00:48adele roberts who said she hopes her world record-breaking marathon runs show people with

00:57cancer they can achieve anything roberts who was previously treated for bowel cancer broke the

01:04record for the fastest aggregate time to complete all world marathon major races with a stoma many

01:13runners compete wearing fancy dress hoping their quirky outfits may boost their fundraising efforts

01:23for their chosen charities costumes on sunday included a group dressed as a colorful caterpillar a pair

01:32dressed as shower gel bottles and a man dressed as a rhino while some carried items including a fridge

01:42and a large teddy bear of course the marathon was also interrupted by pro-palestinian activists who

01:51jumped over the barriers separating spectators from the race course and threw red powder paint on tower

02:00onto tower bridge in front of the men's elite race ethiopian runner tigst asefa won the woman's elite

02:08race setting a new woman only world records with a time of two hours 15 minutes and 50 seconds

02:16whole sebastian saw from kenya came first in the men's elite race with a time of two hours two minutes and

02:26and 27 seconds