The London Marathon is in 3 days time and I was surprised at the ratio of applicants versus accepted. This BBC news article said how for the 2025 marathon, there were 840,000 applications!
So I made this chart to see how it has evolved over time.
If you are interested, I made a Youtube video talking about the chart I produced here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDPLLZmfsqY
Posted by leej11
4 Comments
Interesting trend! Thx for sharing
I think this is probably similar for a lot of marathons. I know the Chicago marathon has a high number of applications and has to limit entrants.
Interesting graph though!
Why was there no marathin in 2022 and 23?
I noticed that there is no nominal fee for applying. This means many (even bots) can apply and hope for one application gets selected