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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Sport
Malik Ouzia

Hackney Half: East London set for capital’s biggest half-marathon with record 24,000 field

Organisers expect the “power of sport to bind communities” to be on full display this weekend as the biggest-ever edition of the Hackney Half Marathon takes place in east London.

A field of 24,000 runners are set to take to the 13.1-mile course, which starts and finishes on Hackney Marshes, 2,000 more than did so when the previous record was set back in 2019.

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