Date: <\/strong>Sunday, 2 October <\/span>Time:<\/strong> 08:50 BST (elite wheelchair men’s and women’s races), 09:00 BST (elite women’s race), 09:40 BST (elite men’s race and mass start)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n| Coverage: <\/strong>Live on BBC television, radio and online<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n | Four-time Olympic champion Mo Farah has withdrawn from Sunday’s London Marathon with a hip injury.<\/span><\/p>\n It would have been the 39-year-old’s first full marathon since 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n The six-time world champion won the Big Half – a half-marathon race – in London earlier this month as part of his preparations.<\/span><\/p>\n Britain’s Farah said it is “really disappointing” and that he has done everything he can to compete but “it hasn’t proved enough”.<\/span><\/p>\n “I’ve been training really hard over the past few months and I’d got myself back into good shape and was feeling pretty optimistic about being able to put in a good performance,” said Farah.<\/span><\/p>\n “However, over the past 10 days I’ve been feeling pain and tightness in my right hip. I’ve had extensive physio and treatment and done everything I can to be on the start line but it hasn’t improved enough to compete on Sunday.”<\/span><\/p>\n He added that he is disappointed not to be racing in front of his home crowd and that he hopes to return to the race in April 2023.<\/span><\/p>\n Farah, whose highest London Marathon finish was third in 2018, has raced in three London Marathons and was a pacemaker at the elite-only event in 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n His time of two hours five minutes 11 seconds at the Chicago Marathon in 2018, which is his only marathon victory, is a British record.<\/span><\/p>\n Hugh Brasher, event director of the London Marathon, said: “We are so sorry that Mo is not fit to run on Sunday. We wish him a very speedy recovery and hope to see him running the 2023 London Marathon in April next year.”<\/span><\/p>\n Farah returned to the track in 2020 after three years of focusing on the marathon but failed to qualify for last year’s delayed Tokyo Olympics.<\/span><\/p>\n He was also surprisingly beaten by club runner Ellis Cross at the London 10,000 in May as he returned to competition after an 11-month absence.<\/span><\/p>\n |
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