F55-59 at TCS London Marathon 2026: Riddell-Webster rules a 1,484-strong field

• Alice Riddell-Webster won the F55-59 age group in 2:56:44 (6:44/mi) — the only finisher in the group to break three hours.
• Cornelia Klaver produced the fastest women's split on the 20K→Half segment of the entire women's field, yet crossed the line 3rd in 3:04:31 — a tale of two very different halves.
• Jacqueline Rockliffe (2:59:05) and Sarah Swinhoe (3:04:55) rounded out the podium, with Rockliffe posting the 141st-fastest women's split on the closing 40K→Finish stretch to hold off any late challenges.
• Tracy Jenkins finished 5th in 3:08:11, with the top five all completing the course in under 3:09.

Alice Riddell-Webster was the class of a 1,484-strong F55-59 field, finishing in 2:56:44 at a 6:44/mi clip — a full 2:21 clear of second place. Her race wasn't without drama: she drifted back through the women's field between 5K and 35K, slipping as far as 255th among women, before a sustained push over the final third reeled her back to 167th among women by 40K. She held that position through the tape, and her 136th-fastest women's split on the 35K–40K segment tells you exactly when she turned the screws.

Jacqueline Rockliffe ran the opposite kind of race — patient and progressive. Starting around 274th among women, she worked her way steadily forward to finish 226th, clocking 2:59:05 (6:50/mi) for second in the age group. Third went to Cornelia Klaver, whose story is the most eye-catching in the field: she was tracking around 14,000th among women at the halfway approach, then unleashed the fastest women's split of anyone in the entire race on the 20K–Half segment to rocket to 183rd among women. She couldn't quite sustain that blistering surge, drifting back to 373rd by the finish, but her 3:04:31 was more than enough to claim the bronze.

Sarah Swinhoe (4th, 3:04:55, 7:03/mi) and Tracy Jenkins (5th, 3:08:11, 7:11/mi) completed a top five separated by just over 11 minutes at the front and under 4 minutes across places two through five — solid racing in cool but breezy London conditions. Annabelle Stearns (7th, 3:11:50) and Claire Galpin (8th, 3:13:33) kept the pressure on through the teens, while Samantha Alvarez and Hong Jiang both clocked identical displayed times of 3:17:38 in 13th and 14th — the timing mats splitting them where the eye cannot.