{"id":29030,"date":"2025-04-25T16:46:20","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T16:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/london-marathon-how-to-apply-for-a-place-in-2026\/"},"modified":"2025-04-25T16:46:21","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T16:46:21","slug":"london-marathon-how-to-apply-for-a-place-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/london-marathon-how-to-apply-for-a-place-in-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"London Marathon: How to apply for a place in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The public ballot for the 2026 London Marathon opened on Friday, 25 April 2025, and will close on Friday, 2 May 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Anyone can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.londonmarathonevents.co.uk\/london-marathon\/run-charity\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">apply to enter,<span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-1f39n02-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">, <!-- -->external<\/span><\/a> and the successful applicants are chosen through a random draw.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The results of the ballot will be announced by email in July.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It doesn&#8217;t cost anything to enter the ballot, but if you are successful you will need to pay the entry fee of \u00a379.99.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">If you choose to donate your fee to the London Marathon Foundation at the point of entry, it&#8217;s \u00a349.99.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Those who donate their fee will be entered into a second ballot, if unsuccessful in the first.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">London is the most popular marathon in the world, and more than 840,000 people applied to run the 2025 race through the public ballot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Between 17,000 and 20,000 are usually successful each year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/athletics\/articles\/czrveeljekzo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The public ballot for the 2026 London Marathon opened on Friday, 25 April 2025, and will close on Friday, 2 May 2025. Anyone can apply to enter,, external and the successful applicants are chosen through a random draw. The results of the ballot will be announced by email in July. It doesn&#8217;t cost anything to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29031,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29030"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29030"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29032,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29030\/revisions\/29032"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}