About 37,500 amateur athletes, fun runners and elite¹ sportsmen and women have run the Virgin² London Marathon.

大约37500名业余运动员、好玩者以及职业男女运动员参加了伦敦马拉松赛。

Kenya's Wilson Kipsang won the men's elite race with a time of 2:04:44 and Mary Keitany, also from Kenya, defended her title with a time of 2:18:37.

The men's wheelchair race was won by Britain's David Weir³, his sixth victory, and fellow Briton Shelly Woods won the women's event.

But a woman runner collapsed⁴ and died near the finish of the 26.2-mile race.

The event's organisers say the 30-year-old fell as she approached Buckingham Palace.

Medical attention was given at the scene, but she was declared dead later in the afternoon.

More than 100 people were attempting to break world records during the race.

David Stone beat six competitors to break the Guinness World Record for the fastest marathon dressed as a book character.

The 42-year-old from Exmouth, in Devon, dressed as Count Dracula and completed the run in two hours 42 minutes, smashing the previous record of three hours and two minutes.

He is already a record holder⁵ after dressing⁶ as Superman last year to break the record for fastest marathon dressed as a superhero.

Fauja Singh, believed to be the oldest marathon runner at 101, completed his race in seven hours and 49 minutes.

The east Londoner has said this would be his last marathon so he can concentrate on shorter distances and faster times.

Sasha Kenney, 34, raised more than £2,000 for the NSPCC when she broke the six-hour mark for the quickest hula hooping（呼啦圈） runner. She completed it in a time of five hours and five minutes.

Other records broken on Sunday included the fastest marathon dressed as a jester in three hours one minute by Alexander Scherz, the fastest marathon dressed as a Roman Soldier in two hours and 57 minutes by David Tomlin and the fastest marathon dressed as a vegetable in two hours and 59 minutes by Edward Lumley.

Brother and sister George and Charley Phillips, from Hammersmith, west London, broke the record for the fastest marathon time on stilts⁷ coming in at six hours and 50 minutes.