The triathlete will repay the favour to Cairess who paced him to beautiful time in Valencia final December.
Reigning Olympic triathlon champion Alex Yee will tackle pacemaking duties on the 2026 TCS London Marathon, the place he’s set to assist Britain’s main hope Emile Cairess.
The race, which takes place on April 26, will see Yee repay a favour to Cairess after the Leeds-based marathoner helped information him by 21 miles on the Valencia Marathon final December. On that event, Yee went on to clock 2:06:38 – the second-fastest marathon time ever recorded by a British athlete.
„Emile is a good runner, and he was a large assist to me ultimately yr’s Valencia Marathon, each throughout my coaching block beforehand and pacing on the day,“ stated Yee. „My hope is that I can repay him for that assist by supporting him as a lot as I can at this yr’s TCS London Marathon and play some half in serving to him obtain his ambitions.”
Cairess, who completed fourth on the 2024 Paris Olympic Video games marathon, is the third-fastest British marathoner in historical past with a private greatest of two:06:46 and can as soon as once more lead the house cost in London.
Yee, in the meantime, made his marathon debut within the capital in 2025, ending 14th general in 2:11:08 and ending because the second British finisher.
“It was an unbelievable expertise to race the TCS London Marathon final yr,“ he stated. „As a Londoner, I assumed I knew what to anticipate, however the crowds, the assist and the ambiance was extra spectacular than I ever imagined. Despite the fact that I received’t be doing the complete 26.2 miles once more this yr, I’m wanting ahead to absorbing the expertise once more.”
Elsewhere, Alex Bell, recent from victory on the GetPRO Bathtub Half and chosen for the World Athletics Street Operating Championships, will tempo the elite British ladies.
The lads’s race can even function skilled pacemakers, together with Oscar Kiplimo, the older brother of half marathon world record-holder Jacob Kiplimo, and Andrea Kiptoo, a coaching companion of defending champion Sabastian Sawe.
There have, nevertheless, been a number of withdrawals from the British contingent. Marc Scott and George James are each out of the lads’s race, whereas Abbie Donnelly, Charlotte Purdue and Natasha Wilson have withdrawn from the ladies’s discipline. Spain’s Laura Luengo can even not compete.
They comply with the sooner withdrawal of Olympic champion and 2023 London winner Sifan Hassan.
One addition to the elite ladies’s discipline is Bahrain’s nationwide record-holder Eunice Chebichii Chumba, who boasts a private greatest of two:20:02.
The ladies’s discipline is headed by world record-holder Tigst Assefa alongside main champions similar to Peres Jepchirchir and Hellen Obiri.
Within the males’s race, defending champion Sawe faces a formidable line-up that features Kiplimo, Tamirat Tola and Joshua Cheptegei, in addition to a robust British group led by Cairess, Mahamed Mahamed and Philip Sesemann.
