Runner nearing the finish line of the London Marathon
Student Project

London Marathon 2014-2022

The London Marathon is an annual 26.2 mile foot race that draws tens of thousands of runners from around the world. Participants run past many of London's most famous landmarks including The Cutty Sark, Tower Bridge, Canary Wharf, and Buckingham Palace, before crossing the finish line in St. James Park. The race first took place in 1981 and is one of the six marathons that make up the Abbott World Marathon Majors series.

Learn more about the finishers of this iconic race! Runners and non-runners alike can use this website to explore the results of every London Marathon held between 2014 and 2022, except the 2020 event where the mass participation race was cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

The underlying data comes from a Kaggle dataset (here) that was originally sourced by scraping the official results data from the London Marathon website (here). The visualizations were built using Tableau and are hosted on Tableau Public.

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Screenshot of the London Marathon 2014-2022 project website

Learn more about the 310,000+ runners from around the world who have completed the London Marathon between 2014 and 2022! The interactive visualizations allow you to explore the data across years, nationalities, gender, and runner type. A fun animation mimics the popular dot races shown at US sporting events to illustrate the relative speed of marathon finishers.

Last updated:

December 8, 2023