M50-54 at TCS London Marathon 2026: Will Green Runs Away With It

• Will Green wins in 2:23:07 (5:28/mi), pulling 4 minutes clear of runner-up Stuart Haynes — a dominant margin in a field of 3,474 finishers.
• Green's late surge: his 35K–40K split ranked 24th-fastest among all women in the race — a blistering move through the closing miles that underlined just how controlled his earlier running was.
• Tight battle for bronze: Paul Greig (2:31:06) held off Chris Newton (2:34:42) by 3:36, with Newton and Alasdair Leslie (2:35:17) separated by just 35 seconds for 4th and 5th.
• Shuichi Koyama and Nicholas Gemmell finished 9th and 10th in 2:38:11 and 2:38:13 respectively — two seconds apart after 26.2 miles.

Will Green's afternoon in London was a masterclass in patient racing. He entered the first checkpoint ranked 97th among men, a perfectly measured opening, then began threading his way through the field. By 20K he was up to 82nd, by 30K he'd cracked the top 50 at 49th, and he held that form all the way to the line. The finishing time — 2:23:07 at 5:28/mi — was the class of the M50-54 group by a considerable margin, and his 35K–40K segment, the 24th-fastest women's split in the entire field, showed exactly where he shifted gears.

Stuart Haynes ran a different kind of race. He came out fast — his 5K–10K segment ranked 77th among women in the field — and cracked the top 100 men by the second checkpoint. But the pace levelled off in the back half, and he crossed in 2:27:09 (5:37/mi) to take a well-earned second place, four minutes behind Green. Paul Greig was similarly aggressive early, posting the 195th-fastest women's 5K–10K split and settling into a 5:46/mi rhythm that delivered third in 2:31:06.

The race for fourth was where the real drama played out. Chris Newton (2:34:42, 5:54/mi) clawed back ground through the closing stretch — his 40K–Finish segment ranked 215th among women, a strong finish — while Alasdair Leslie (2:35:17, 5:55/mi) had gone out harder, posting the 351st-fastest women's 5K–10K split, before fading just enough for Newton to pass. Thirty-five seconds separated them at the line. Behind them, the 56°F overcast conditions seemed to suit the pack: six finishers between 6th and 12th place were covered by fewer than 35 seconds, with Koyama and Gemmell producing one of the day's closest finishes — a two-second gap after a full marathon.