How that compared to other comedians

Ivo Graham won the battle of the comics at yesterday’s London Marathon, completing the course in a very creditable 3hr3 36mins.

The comic ran the 26 miles while pushing fellow stand-up Rosie Jones in a buggy, raising almost £11,000 for Multiple Sclerosis Society and Up - The Adult Cerebral Palsy Movement

And afterwards Graham posted a picture of them both with the roles reversed, joking that’s how they would do the race next year.

Next year pic.twitter.com/qWNkjMfinr

— Ivo Graham (@IvoGraham) April 21, 2024

Not far behind them was Maisie Adam, finishing in 3hr 46mins. She was running to honour  Frank Ashton, a 14-year-old from her Harrogate home own who died from a rare form of cancer, and she raised more than £6,000 for a fund in his name at the Bone Cancer Research Trust.

Ivo Graham: 3hrs 36mins
Maisie Adam: 3hr 46mins
Esther Manito: 4hrs 47min
Joel Dommett: 5hrs 19 min
Romesh Ranganathan: 6hrs 35mins

Dommett finished the race while dressed in the Piranha costume from The Masked Singer. Afterwards. he said: ‘It was definitely the hardest marathon I’ve done. Really had to dig deep. Lots of shouting to myself.

‘It probably weighs, I reckon, probably about 8kg, something like that. The hard thing was it was just banging against my head the entire time. I think I’m about three inches shorter now."

The comic and TV presenter was running for Shooting Star Children’s Hospices and raised almost £12,000.

Ranganathan raised almost £17,000 for suicide prevention charity The Campaign Against Living Miserably.

Before the race, the 46-year-old comic said: 'My target time is to finish while the roads are still closed. That is the aim for me, if I get that, that's me done.'

Meanwhile, stand-up Esther Manito raised almost £1,400 for for World Animal Protection

Published: 22 Apr 2024