London Marathon 2012: Kenya's Wilson Kipsang and Mary Keitany winReported by Metro.co.uk on Sunday, 22 April 2012 (on April 22, 2012)
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*Kenya's Wilson Kipsang stormed ahead to win the men's Virgin London Marathon as fellow Kenyan Mary Keitany finished first in the women's race.*
Prince Harry poses with London Marathon winners Mary Keitany (L) and Wilson Kipsang (Picture: Reuters)
Kipsang finished the race in an unofficial time of 2hrs 4mins 44secs.
He won by more than two minutes, just ahead of fellow Kenyan Martin Lel who finished second before third place winner Tsegaye Kebede from Ethiopia.
Kenyan runner Wilson Kipsang makes it past the finish line (Picture: Getty)
Great Britain's Lee Merrien finished in 17th place with a time of 2hs 13mins 41secs but he was outside the Olympic 'A' standard of 2hrs 12mins.
Scott Overall, who is the only British man to be selected for the Olympics after finishing fifth place in Berlin last year, was forced to drop out after 15 kilometres following a hamstring strain after acting as a pacemaker for his fellow Brits.
Mary Keitany falls to her knees after finishing the race (Picture: Getty)
Female Kenyan runner Keitany won with an unofficial time of 2hrs 18mins 36secs. This impressive time is a minute ahead of world champion Edna Kiplagat.
In the female race, Claire Hallissey was the first British athlete to cross the line, ending up in 11th place with an unofficial time of 2hrs 27mins 44secs.
Thousands turned up to take part in the Virgin London Marathon (Picture: Getty)
Hallissey is now highly likely to score an Olympic place alongside Paula Radcliffe and Mara Yamauchi as her finish time was 40 seconds quicker than the time run by fellow Brit Jo Pavey last year.
Pavey is now at risk of not being selected for Team GB following her decision to sit out of today's London Marathon.
PICTURES: The 32nd London Marathon
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