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Ivo Graham pushes Rosie Jones round the London Marathon in 3hrs 36min
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