Press Release - London Marathon - 12/16/24

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

    Olympic triathlon champion Alex Yee making TCS London Marathon debut

Joining you on the Start Line will be Olympic triathlon gold medallist Alex 
Yee, who is making his 26.2-mile debut at the 2025 TCS London Marathon on 
Sunday 27 April. 

The 26-year-old Brit, who has won four Olympic Games medals for triathlon, 
is no stranger to competing in elite athletics, after racing for Great 
Britain on both the track and cross-country. 

But the TCS London Marathon will be his most high-profile athletics race to 
date and the born-and-bred Londoner cannot wait to experience an event that 
has always been high on his to-do list. 

Yee, who raced the Mini London Marathon five times during his junior 
career, said: "Committing to the TCS London Marathon for me was a 
no-brainer. It is an event that has given me so many memories. London 
Marathon day has been such a big part of my life growing up. I remember 
racing the Mini London Marathon multiple times as a young athlete and it 
was one of my biggest and most exciting races of the year. Taking part in a 
full marathon has always been an itch I've wanted to scratch and there 
isn't any another place than London that I would want to start that 
journey. 

"I will be focusing my training over the coming months on the marathon and 
am looking forward to seeing what I can do over the 26.2 miles. I am sure 
that once again the TCS London Marathon will include the best marathon 
runners from around the world and across the UK and I'm just looking 
forward to seeing how I fare in their company." 

Yee won the individual Olympic gold medal at last summer's Paris Games in 
memorable fashion, closing a 12-second gap on Hayden Wilde of New Zealand 
in the final 3K to take a famous victory. It meant he went one better than 
the Tokyo Olympic Games where he finished with the silver medal. He was 
part of the gold medal-winning Great Britain triathlon team in Tokyo and 
the bronze medal-winning team in Paris. 

The full elite field will be announced in the new year. 

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