• Organisers hail ‘largest annual one-day fundraising event’
• 44th staging of the event surpassed 2019 mark of £66.4m

The London Marathon raised a record £ 73.5 million ($98.28 million) for charity, race organisers said on Wednesday in what they described as the world’s largest annual one-day fundraising event.

The collection surpassed the previous world record of £66.4 million, set in 2019, on 21 April when more than 53,000 runners completed the 44th London Marathon.