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Tsegaye Kebede (ETH) and Liliya Shobukhova (RUS) are the first Virgin London Marathon Champions and won the anniversary 30th LM edition.
The Ethiopian finished 9 secs outside the course record after 2:05:19, the Russian lady set a personal best by 2 mins at 2:22:00. Mara Yamauchi came home tenth and could not be satisfied by her performance.
Defending ladies champion Irina Mikitenko had to quit the race after half the distance due to foot problems. Mens defending champion Samuel Wanjiru also quit the race after 27km with knee problems.
See Top Ten below.
Liliya Shobukova ran last 2.195km in 6:53min, faster than Paula Radcliffe ran when she set the WR in 2003.
Tsegaye Kebede is now the 2nd fastest marathon runner in the world based on the average of his top five and also the top three performances (2:05:19).

By 7pm at race day evening, 36,549 had crossed the finish line in The Mall after Sir Richard Branson, founder of the Virgin Group, had set a record 36,984 on their way from Greenwich, the largest field ever in the 30th year of the event. Another record number, 37,527, had registered to run by close of play on Saturday from more than 51,000 accepted applicants.

Among the masses of personal triumphs on a day of changing weather conditions were a record 18 Guinness World Record breakers, including the tallest giraffe at 5:55:11; the fastest baby, the actor Tony Audenshaw, in 3:13:30; and the fastest TV character (a dalek) in 4:01:40.

As usual, many turned out in fancy dress and many thousands more ran to raise money for hundreds of charities. There was one Royal winner, in Princess Beatrice, who crossed the line in 5:13:03 as part of a 34-person human caterpillar, claiming a Guinness World Record for the most linked runners to run a marathon.

The chain also included Sam and Holly Branson, Sir Richard’s children. Sir Richard himself crossed the line 5:02:24 surrounded by his team of celebrities.

The oldest man was Jerzy Kolodziej, aged 86, who finished in 6:35:00, while the oldest women, Irene Clarke, aged 83 crossed the line in 8:13:23.

 2010 Top Ten

1  Tsegaye Kebede               ETH  2:05:19
2  Emmanuel Mutai               KEN  2:06:23
3  Jaouad Gharib                  MAR  2:06:55
4  Abderrahime Bouramdane    MAR 2:07:33
5  Abel Kirui                         KEN  2:08:04
6  Marilson Gomes dos Santos BRA 2:08:46
7  Zersenay Tadese              ERI  2:12:03
8  Andrew Lemoncello           GBR  2:13:40
9  Yonas Kifle                      ERI  2:14:39
10 Andi Jones                     GBR  2:16:38

1  Liliya Shobukhova             RUS  2:22:00
2  Inga Abitova                   RUS  2:22:19
3  Aselefech Mergia             ETH  2:22:38

4  Bezunesh Bekele              ETH  2:23:17
5  Askale Tafa                    ETH  2:24:39
6  Yukiko Akaba                  JPN   2:24:55
7  Xue Bai                         CHI   2:25:18
8  Kim Smith                      NZL  2:25:21
9  Mari Ozaki                     JAP   2:25:43
10 Mara Yamauchi              GBR  2:26:16