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Four of the fastest men in history to go head-to-head

For the first time in history, the 2023 TCS London Marathon elite men’s field will see two men who have run inside two hours and two minutes together on the same Start Line.

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Bekele, Amos Kipruto, Tola, Kelvin Kiptum, Legese Geremew, Kamworor, Kipchumba.

Just saw Marc Scott on the list as well. He wasn't on the list of British entrants released yesterday.

Frank Lara is in there for the Americans

Stacked. Basically the best guys in the world minus Kipchoge and Chebet

I guess this puts the Bekele 50k rumor to rest. Expect great things.

I think the race will be competitive for the podium, but after that it's not actually that deep a field. You have a pack of 12 guys: Kipruto, Bekele, Kiptum, Legese, Geremew, Tola, Atanaw, Gebresilase, Kipchumba, Yura, Farah, Kamworor and then you subtract Bekele who will either DNS or have a stinker (hope he runs well but judging from his record) and subtract Farah who won't be competitive and just left out there alone.

That's a tight group of 10 decent guys and then 2x sub2:10 guys (not including Dewi who hasn't been in form since his long standing mystery illness) and it leaves you with a bunch of 2:11-12+ folks.

This is all coming out more critical than I intended it to be, but I would've hoped to see some more people in the 2:06-2:08 range to pad things out. This race will be the lead group and then the chase group 8 or so minutes behind on 2:10ish pace.

I think it will be competitive. London pays massive bonuses for guys running sub-2:04 and sub-2:05. A lot of those athletes who have 2:06-2:08 PBs right now will go for the 2:04 bonus. I can easily see 10 guys going under 2:06 in this one.

Farah won't be one of them. He hasn't run a marathon in three years and his shorter races have been mediocre. I'd like to see a really competitive race among the Brits with Farah, Cairess, and Scott all going for 2:08. I think that's realistic for Farah, anything more than that would be outstanding at this stage of his career.

The most interesting person on the list by far is Kiptum. We get to see here if that 2:01 was a fluke or if he's the real deal. If he runs sub-2:03 in London, I'm ready to crown him as Kipchoge's heir.

Bekele, who knows at this point? Anything between 2:03 and 2:12 seems possible for him

Would love to see Kamworer run well. He was on an awesome trajectory before injuries/accidents

Lol. Kelvin will run 1:58 and the Barnum and Bailey theme song will play at the finish line.

As far as the secondary group is concerned I think it will still be pretty competitive and you might have a group of Farah, Cairess, Brett Robinson, Kawauchi, and possibly a few others like Weynay or Linkletter if they're ambitious shooting for 2:07 range.

Also sorry but I don't see Marc Scott anywhere on the list. Did I miss something?

1. Kipruto

2. Kiptum

3. Leul

4. Geremew

5. Kipchumba

6. Tamirat

7. Kamworor

8. Atanaw

9. Legese

10. Bekele

I think Kiptum will run crazy fast and might we see a duel in Chicago/Berlin with Kipchoge? Of course everyone wants Eliud to run in NYC. It’s possible they could go their separate ways until Paris.

Overall, this field is solid and about what I expected once we saw Boston’s. They didn’t lose a big name to Tokyo to their credit but didn’t get a big debutante or second chance runner like Rhonex Kipruto, Jacob Kiplimo, Yomif Kejelcha, Kibiwott Kandie et al.

He was on the list this morning, now gone. I wonder what's going on there. Maybe he's waiting to see how training goes before committing

Lara, Bekele, Kamworor.

Has he run 60 mpw?

Rooting for Kamworor and Kiptum.

Bekele and Farah are over the hill.

As a side note, I will be running London too.

I think it's cute that they introduce the names with: four of the five fastest ever. Two of those wont break 2.05. The current World Champ and two former runner-ups here are bigger threats.

Waiting now for the superb women’s list. Could we get Gidey, Ayana, Obiri, Kosgei, Assefa, YY, and Peres? Too much to ask.

Yes when will the women's list be released? I am expecting to see Sisson.

How fast do you plan on running?