# London Landmarks Half Marathon raises over £8.8mn

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2023/04/03/london-landmarks-half-marathon-raises-over-8-8mn/
- Published: 2023-04-03T14:24:15+01:00
- Author: Melanie May

**This year’s London Landmarks Half Marathon has raised almost £3 million more than
the 2022 event, with a total of over £8.8mn for Tommy’s and its other charity partners.**

This is the largest sum of money the event has raised to date ([2022 saw almost 12,000 runners raise £6mn](https://fundraising.co.uk/2022/04/04/london-landmarks-half-marathon-2022-raises-6-million/)).

The [London Landmarks Half Marathon](https://llhm.co.uk/) took place yesterday, 
2 April. 17,211 participants ran the 13.1 mile route through the City of London 
and Westminster, which took them past some of London’s most famous landmarks, including
Big Ben, St Paul’s Cathedral, Nelson’s Column, and the Tower of London. 

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The annual event is organised by [Tommy’s](https://www.tommys.org/) to raise funds
to support its work, as well as for over 450 charity partners. Famous faces among
the runners included Dermot O’Leary, Mark Wright and Jenni Falconer, who** **ran
in support of Coppafeel, JE3 Foundation and Tommy’s respectively. 

In an event first, David Smale and  Ben Leaman broke through the tape together as
joint winners. Other celebrations included breaking a Guinness World Record for 
the ‘fastest half marathon dressed as a star’ claimed by Keith Williams. Running
his 5th London Landmarks Half on behalf of Tommy’s, Keith smashed the record completing
the course in 1hr 32 minutes.

The LLHM Charity Mascot Dash also returned, with eight characters competing in a
100M ‘sprint’ down Whitehall past Horse Guards Parade ahead of the first runners
reaching the finish line. This race was won by Hero, the canine mascot from Guide
Dogs.

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For the first year, LLHM officially welcomed wheelchairs to the event, with wheelchair
participants and their support runners leading the masses as they crossed the start
line.

Event Director Lia Fyles said: 

> “Today has been our biggest ever London Landmarks Half. To be able to welcome 
> those in wheelchairs to participate for the first year is progression for us, 
> we want everyone no matter what their background or ability to be able to experience
> the magic of being involved in our special event. Every year we aim to entertain
> and give back to the runners as they run the course – they all have their own 
> powerful personal reasons for taking part today so we try to ensure it’s a day
> to remember. Congratulations to everyone and thank you for helping Tommy’s, and
> our charity partners, raise so much money which will help many people in the future.”

[LLHM 2024](https://llhm.co.uk/pre-register-half) will take place on Sunday 7 April
2024.