London Marathon 2026 F40-44: Clement Runs Down the Field to Claim the Crown

• Andrea Clement wins in 2:32:11 (5:48/mi), producing the 3rd-fastest first-half split among all women in the race and surging from 8th to 2nd among women before holding on for the F40-44 title.
• Emma Suchy led the women's field through the opening 10K — running the fastest women's 5K–10K split in the entire women's race — but faded from 1st among women at halfway to 19th by the finish, settling for 3rd in F40-44 in 2:40:11.
• Yuebin Son's closing kick earned her the 2nd-fastest women's 40K-to-finish split in the field, vaulting her to 2nd in F40-44 with a 2:38:27 — a decisive six-minute gap on Suchy.
• Rebecca Bunting ran the most consistent race in the top five, climbing steadily from 42nd among women at the first checkpoint all the way to 25th by the finish, crossing 4th in F40-44 at 2:41:53.

Andrea Clement's race was a masterclass in patience and progression. She entered the first half already flying — her split ranked 3rd among all women on the course — and she kept climbing, moving from 8th among women to 2nd before the closing miles. A slight fade to 3rd among women in the final stretch didn't cost her the F40-44 crown: she crossed in 2:32:11, a 5:48/mi average that left the rest of the age group well behind.

The early drama belonged to Emma Suchy, who sat atop the entire women's field through halfway on the strength of the fastest women's 5K–10K split in the race. But the second half told a different story: Suchy slipped from 1st among women to 9th by 40K, and to 19th by the finish. She still claimed 3rd in F40-44 at 2:40:11, but the contrast between her blazing front-half and fading close is the sharpest arc in this group.

Yuebin Son was the mirror image. Relatively quiet through the middle of the race — drifting as far back as 19th among women — she unleashed the 2nd-fastest women's closing split from 40K to the finish, surging home in 2:38:27 to claim 2nd. Between Son and Suchy, the final standings look calm; the journeys there were anything but. Gabriel Carnwath (5th, 2:43:58) and Nicole Green (6th, 2:45:47) rounded out a top six separated by just under 12 minutes across a field of 3,355 finishers in the F40-44 age group.