London Marathon 2024 LIVE: Latest updates, start times and tracker as more than 50,000 runners take part - with Man United owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe among the celebrities involved

There volition beryllium dozens of celebrated faces taking portion successful the London Marathon today.

The likes of Olympian James Cracknell, MP Dehenna Davison and Gogglebox's Raza and Bassit Siddiqui person tweeted astir the upcoming race.

'Hardest Geezer' Russ Cook has said helium is 'just chilling astatine the moment' aft completing his unthinkable African challenge.

He volition beryllium taking portion successful today's London Marathon, and jokingly told the BBC helium needed to 'burn off' each the pastries he's eaten since coming backmost to Britain.

Organisers person asked pro-Palestine and Israel protesters not to disrupt today's race, pointing to the information that determination are radical taking who are moving successful assistance of Gaza and the families of Israelis kidnapped by Hamas

A fewer radical person been seen waving Palestinian flags successful enactment of Palestine up the marathon.

The elite women person got underway, up of a highly anticipated race.

Organisers person said this is the champion women's tract ever assembled for a marathon, with hopes the satellite grounds could beryllium broken.

Among the apical contenders is Ethiopian Tigst Assefa, who acceptable a satellite grounds clip of 211:53 astatine the Berlin Marathon past year.

British runners see Becky Briggs and Alice Wright, who volition beryllium hoping to acceptable a clip that volition spot them suffice for the Olympics aboriginal this twelvemonth successful Paris.

It's early, but determination are already immoderate unthinkable fancy formal outfits connected display.

Many radical taking portion successful the amateur contention volition beryllium wearing costumes arsenic they rise wealth for charity.

Russ Cook, who is known arsenic the 'Hardest Geezer', is taking portion successful today's London Marathon conscionable 2 weeks aft finishing his mammoth African challenge.

The Worthing antheral near the satellite amazed erstwhile helium ran the full magnitude of the continant, and doing the equivalent of a marathon a time implicit the people of astir a year.

He won't beryllium pushing himself excessively hard today, arsenic helium volition beryllium helping gait younger runners arsenic portion of his foundation work.

He told the BBC he'll 'find retired however severely the assemblage is damaged today' aft the 'carnage' of his unthinkable African adventure.

The men's and women's elite wheelchair races person got underway, with comedian Rosie Jone pressing the starting button.

The antheral contention has already breached up with Marcel Hug pushing to the beforehand and mounting the aboriginal pace, with David Weir keeping a adjacent oculus connected him.

While runners from Kenya and Ethiopia person dominated the elite men's and women's races implicit the past decade, determination is ever anticipation a British jock tin outpouring a astonishment and instrumentality the crown.

In the men's contention Emile Cairess (pictured) and Callum Hawkins volition beryllium the absorption of British hopes.

Cairess ran the 3rd fastest clip ever by a British antheral marathon runner connected his London Marathon debut past year, portion Callum Hawkins antecedently came 4th successful the marathon astatine the 2019 World Athletics Championships.

In the women's contention Becky Briggs and Alice Wright volition beryllium hoping to acceptable times bully capable to spot them suffice for the Olympics aboriginal this year.

Police officers person massed successful cardinal London this greeting up of the London Marathon amid the menace of disruption from protesters.

Miles of roadworthy closures person been enactment successful spot and information railings enactment up astir the 26.2-mile way which volition spot 50,000 nonrecreational and amateur runners instrumentality part.

Photos taken successful the aboriginal hours of Sunday greeting amusement constabulary securing the way with sniffer dogs successful operation, arsenic good arsenic stewards congregating earlier the archetypal contention gets underway astatine 9.05am.

It comes amid the menace of imaginable protests by pro-Palestine and Israel demonstrators, with bosses astatine the lawsuit urging them to not to disrupt the Marathon and to absorption connected 'coexistence and togetherness'.

David Weir has been an icon of the London Marathon's wheelchair contention implicit much than 2 decades, with the 45-year-old taking portion for the 25-year successful a enactment today.

In that clip helium has won the contention 8 times, though successful caller years helium has had to play 2nd fiddle to Swiss racer Marcel Hug (pictured unneurotic below), who is bidding for a 4th successive victory, and his 5th overall.

In his bid to regain the borderline implicit his rival, Weir has got a caller 'Formula 1' racing seat developed by Sauber, which helium says 'feels astonishing to push'.

He told the BBC: '"I'm precise aero[dynamic], the chair's aero, it's a afloat c seat - it's large to beryllium in.

'Marcel is connected apical of his crippled and is the maestro of the marathon region astatine the moment, it's a peculiar contention for maine due to the fact that it's wherever I started my journey.'

The brace volition get underway successful the elite men's wheelchair contention astatine astir 9.05am.

Many runners person already arrived astatine Greenwich Park and Blackheath Common, wherever they are preparing themselves for the pugnacious 26.2 miles that lies ahead.

Organisers person enactment up barriers on the route, including connected The Mall wherever the runners volition (hopefully) powerfulness done to the decorativeness line.

You tin ticker immoderate of the preparations, which included the deployment of constabulary sniffer dogs, below:

The London Marathon starts astatine Blackheath Common, with galore runners gathering successful Greenwich Park earlier their question sets off.

The 26.2-mile way sees participents spell past immoderate of the capital's astir iconic sights earlier finishing connected The Mall with Buckingham Palace looming ample successful the background.

On the mode to the decorativeness enactment runners volition powerfulness past the pursuing landmarks:

It has been an aboriginal commencement for astir everyone taking portion successful today's London Marathon, with radical descending connected Greenwich Park to beryllium prepared for the starting gun.

Given the sheer fig of radical taking portion the commencement times person been staggered. Here is the bid they volition acceptable off:

Good greeting and invited to MailOnline's sum of the 2024 London Marathon.

More than 50,000 nonrecreational and amateur runners are acceptable to powerfulness done the streets of the superior today, with galore raising thousands of pounds for foundation successful the process.

Stay stuned to our unrecorded blog, wherever we volition beryllium sharing the champion of the day's action, the inspiring stories of those taking portion and however the celebrated faces successful the tract are getting connected successful their quest to scope the decorativeness line.