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London Marathon 2025- changes to champs entry (knock on effect for GFA?)

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auburnette
auburnette
Oct 2024
2:08pm, 4 Oct 2024
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tcslondonmarathon.com

London champs tightening qualifier and moving to a quota system. Not entirely unexpected re the qualifying times given people are getting faster but disappointing that they are applying a quota, as net effect is to reduce number of places available to champs and GFA runners (If champs is oversubscribed which it appears likely to be, some champs runners will be bumped to GFA which in turn may bump out people who had only just qualified through GFA).
fetcheveryone
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Oct 2024
2:11pm, 4 Oct 2024
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A similar thing is happening with guaranteed entries for clubs. They raised the bar last year, and I'm waiting to see whether the following page will update properly at some point in the next couple of months:

tcslondonmarathon.com
Sam Jelfs
Sam Jelfs
Oct 2024
2:12pm, 4 Oct 2024
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theguardian.com
The London Marathon raised a record £ 73.5m ($98.28m) for charity, race organisers said on Wednesday in what they described as the world’s largest annual one-day fundraising event.


Yeah, it's not a runners race realistically, it's an elite race and a charity event these days. Champs / GFA hurts their fundraising.
auburnette
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Oct 2024
2:13pm, 4 Oct 2024
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I wanna love London (on the day, it's the greatest race in the world because of the incredible spectator support) but London Marathon Events makes it hard sometimes 🥲
Ally-C
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Oct 2024
2:46pm, 4 Oct 2024
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Been saying for years it’s not a race for runners.
Bazoaxe
Bazoaxe
Oct 2024
1:29pm, 6 Oct 2024
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I loved every one of my 11 London marathons, all of them on a GFA place. It does sound like they are taking away that element which is sad.

my days of running marathons are over, but it will be a shame if it is made harder for people to get a place.
Chrismean
Chrismean
Oct 2024
11:33am, 7 Oct 2024
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I hate the quota thing - and the long wait before you know if you're "in". I know it's for 2026...but ....sigh. Will enjoy my 2025 spot to the max

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London champs tightening qualifier and moving to a quota system. Not entirely unexpected re the qualifying times given people are getting faster but disappointing that they are applying a quota, as net effect is to reduce number of places available to champs and GFA runners (If champs is oversubscribed which it appears likely to be, some champs runners will be bumped to GFA which in turn may bump out people who had only j...
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