Olympic athlete Rose Harvey has described crossing the finish line at the London Marathon as "really, really special" - all the more so because she broke her leg in the last one she ran. Harvey was running the marathon for Team GB at the Paris Olympics when she suffered a stress fracture of the femur - but still managed to finish the race.

Sunday's London Marathon set a world record for the number of finishers, eclipsing the previous mark of 55,646 in New York last year, organisers said.

It's the second-fastest women's time in London Marathon history behind Brit Paula Radcliffe's 2:15:25 from 2003, when she had male pacemakers.Assefa, the Paris Olympic silver medalist, owns the second-fastest women's marathon in history overall — 2:11:53 from Berlin 2023 with male pacemakers.