CJ Ujahs sorry saga is another reminder that supplementing your diet with pills, powders and potions is a risky business

One of the great mysteries of the sport is that athletes continue to take supplements despite governing bodies and anti-doping organisations continually warning them not to risk it. CJ Ujah is the latest in a long list of athletes who have tested positive after taking a contaminated supplement. His punishment is a 22-month ban and the loss of Olympic 4x100m silver medals from Tokyo. Will fellow athletes throw their pills and powders in the bin, though, or will they carry on as usual?

Taking supplements is risky for athletes as they can be contaminated or even adulterated with prohibited substances, says Brett Clothier, head of the Athletics Integrity Unit. Athletes owe it to their fellow competitors to be 100% certain before putting anything into their body. If theres the slightest doubt, leave it out.

This is not the first time Ive tackled this topic and over the years it is usually met with relative silence on social media. I believe it is not what elite athletes want to hear and, linked to this, there are estimates that more than 90% of the GB senior team take supplements. Someone once told me it might be nearer 99%.

The rich irony is that most supplements probably wont work anyway. In 2019 World Athletics published a definitive and wide-ranging study of supplements and concluded that only five of them worked with any great certainty and, even then, the advantages were often small.

Consulting more than 50 experts from Oxford University to the Australian Institute for Sport, the global governing bodys guide to nutrition listed caffeine, creatine, nitrate/beetroot juice, beta-alanin and bicarbonate as the only supplements that definitely show benefits when taken. There is no great proof, for example, that simple vitamin tablets even work.

The advice of the World Athletics study added: A food first philosophy is promoted in relation to nutritional needs, and supplements should only be used under supervision to treat or prevent nutrient deficiencies.

If you believe some of the greatest athletes in history, it is possible to reach the top without supplements too. In his heyday on the track, Usain Bolt once went on record saying he didnt take supplements but only took vitamins. Decathlon legend Ashton Eaton claimed to not even take vitamins despite training for a gruelling 10 events.

Eliud Kipchoge takes Maurten drinks during his marathons and long runs but insists he otherwise takes nothing other than real food. Seb Coe, meanwhile, once said: Im always nervous when I read about food supplements. I broke world records and usually found (normal) food enough to get me over the line.

As a club runner I appreciate how tempting supplements can be. If youre looking to improve your performance, then taking a tablet or slurping a drink sounds much easier than belting out dozens of squats or sprint drills. As a teenage runner I took dextrose tablets before races in the hope theyd give me more energy and I experimented with bicarbonate of soda, which buffers lactic acid in speed endurance events but also triggers diarrhoea.

Today I take one or two things like collagen powder and Montmorency cherry tablets for general health rather than athletics performance. Does this make me a hyprocrite? Crucially I am not an elite athlete. I never have been and never will be drug tested.

I do feel nervous for elite athletes who take supplements, however. It is akin to playing Russian roulette with the anti-doping system. Maybe Im twitchier than most current athletes because Ive reported on so many supplement-related stories in the past such as the spate of Nandrolone positives in the late 1990s.

Granted, the supplements industry is better regulated these days with the cleanest products given the Informed Sport seal of approval. But anti-doping experts insist that there is still a risk.

More recently two Welsh internationals, Rhys Williams and Gareth Warburton, were given bans after testing positive due to contaminated supplements. Williams, a former European 400m hurdles champion, said: If it can happen to me, it can happen to anyone. Dont take supplements. I bet most athletes dont do half the checks I did.

Warburton, who was fourth in the Commonwealth Games 800m final 12 years ago, said: All athletes who take supplements are taking a risk. The only way to be 100% safe is not to take them.

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Dont just take it from me or these athletes either. Official advice is to give supplements a wide berth.

UK Athletics says on its website: Due to lack of adequate regulation of the supplement industry there is no guarantee that any supplement is safe. Possible contamination and/or inaccurate labelling means that athletes must remain vigilant to ensure they remain compliant with Anti-Doping rules.

UK Anti-Doping offers similar advice, saying: All athletes are advised to be vigilant in using any supplement. No guarantee can be given that any particular supplement is free from prohibited substances.

An important principle of the Code is that of strict liability, which states that athletes are solely responsible for any prohibited substances they use, attempt to use or is found in their system regardless of how it got there and if there was an intention to cheat. Before taking supplements, athletes must therefore assess the need, risk and consequences to their careers.

After trying to take his own life, the British 400m runner reached out for help and went on to win world, Commonwealth and European medals in 2022

He had tried to take his own life, yet still he attempted to race on. The Diamond League meeting in Rome, the Continental Tour meeting in Hengelo, Matt Hudson-Smith continued to force himself forwards. It was at that point last summer when he finally reached out, telling one of his management team of his suicide attempt and the mental struggles hed been going through. But still he wanted to push.

I remember the biggest low point was at the Gateshead Diamond League and I ran 48.29 [to come last], he recalls. They had almost pulled me out [of the race] but I refused and said Ive got prove a point.

He just wasnt quite sure who he was trying to prove it to.

Theres the saying that pride comes before the fall and I had to put my pride to one side. It was Matt, take a step back. For once, look after yourself.

When we took that step back, made the right changes and got the right people around me well, the proofs in the pudding.

That pudding has been decorated by three major individual 400m championships medals from the past two months World bronze, Commonwealth silver and European gold plus a 4x400m gold from Munich, too.

After years of pure naivety and just going into races blind, not knowing what the hell I was doing but still making a decent job out of it, the 27-year-old has begun to truly hone his 400m craft, to become highly professional and fulfil the promise which is so screamingly evident when he is in full flight.

Much more crucially, however, he is now coming at his sport from a place of balance and happiness.

Injury problems in 2019 a torn hamstring and a torn Achilles was the point at which the dark clouds began to roll in. Based in Florida but unable to race, significant medical debts began to mount. The Covid pandemic left Hudson-Smith isolated in America and he lost his sponsor, while long-time mentor Lloyd Cowan passed away at the beginning of last year. It all simply got too much.

You can ask any athlete. The mental toll you go through just is unimaginable, says the Birchfield Harrier. The injuries mean youre not making money because youre not racing and youre already secluded socially. I was stuck in America and Covid made it a lot worse as well. People were dying around you and your confidence is already low, so I just hit rock bottom.

I was in the hospital thinking this is mad. I never thought Id end up in the situation and thats when I thought I should probably reach out, here because it was getting worse and worse.

And this happened before I was racing. I attempted suicide, and there are obviously after-effects to that, but then I tried to race on and obviously your confidence is at an all-time low.

I did the Rome Diamond League, I did Hengelo and then I just reached out to one of the people on the PACE Sports Management team and they were just like Matt, what the hell?

Thats when some deep breaths were taken and the rebuilding began. Despite a lot of evidence to the contrary, Hudson-Smith insists he is not the most talkative of people, so for an initial meeting with coach Gary Evans in Starbucks to last three hours was a good sign.

It was just open and honest, remembers the British record-holder. I said as long as youre real with me Ill put all the work in and do whatever I need to do for you.

Hes kept that promise and we have a very good working relationship. Hes helped me off the track as well as on it and is continuing to build me up as a person.

A contract with Puma provided another boost to confidence levels, not to mention a little financial stability, but its people like Evans and Christine Ohuruogu that Hudson-Smith describes as being truly priceless.

The former Olympic and two-time world 400m champion has, in fact, played a particularly significant role.

When Lloyd died it left a big void, says Hudson-Smith. Ask any of the athletes he worked with and he was always the person we went to. It was weird because it went from talking to this guy every day to literally gone. Ive always had Christine [who was also coached by Cowan] in my corner and, though shes never going to replace Lloyd, she has helped in that sense.

She gives me invaluable advice about how to be a professional on the track but off the track as well. Shes taught me just how to how to deal with things. Shes very meticulous in what she does and very professional. When Christine says something, you listen.

He continues: When I was younger, this was like more of a hobby. I was just talented and, looking back on it, I just kind of worked on talent, because the first year ever at 400m [2014] I ran 44.75 [at the European Championships] but I didnt really know what I was doing. Ive learned the event now and shes taught me how to be a professional because before I went with the flow and was a bit naïve to everything. I didnt take those extra steps.

Much has happened to Hudson-Smith since he was 18 years old and found himself lining up at the Glasgow Diamond League at Hampden Park eight years ago. He was working at Asda at the time and had signed up to join the army but this was the day when everything changed.

I was in lane eight, wearing a Birchfield kit and thinking what am I doing here?, he says. At around 200m I remember Conrad Williams got on my shoulder and I just started sprinting. I thought as long as I dont come last, Ill have done a good job.

I came third, thinking thats not bad, Ive done myself justice but then I looked at the clock and it read 44.97 [a PB by almost a second]. I started swearing under my breath and I had this image of my mum passed out in the living room. I was shocked and confused but she runs every race with me and I knew she would be just as baffled as I was.

He adds: Its funny, I still have the emails. Theres one from the lady at Asda saying you can always come back but I said Im never coming back. I ignored the next email from the army.

From that day [in Glasgow] it was go, go, go and I never really got time to sit down and just understand the sport really because I never really took it that seriously. I was just doing it for fun.

I never saw myself as someone who was going to make money from this or be a top athlete. But the more I was joking around the higher I got and in 2015 I had three stress fractures but ran 45.0 and in 2016 I made the Olympic final. I thought Jesus, this is mad.

Expectation soon became a constant companion and, when the European title was captured in 2018, many expected it to represent a springboard for the man from Wolverhampton. Little did he know what would be coming next, which is why taking bronze at the World Championships in Eugene meant so much. It was while talking to the press in the immediate aftermath of that performance when he first disclosed his suicide attempt.

At the time, I was just emotional because Id just got [world] bronze and I was just talking, talking, talking and telling my whole life story, he says. I thought Id said something bad because I saw all the reporters faces light up and I tried to change the subject. But everyone seems to be going through something, dont they?

I didnt think it was a big thing but its been nice with people reaching out and telling their story. Hopefully and I dont want to say inspire people because Im just an average Joe Bloggs who can from A to B pretty quickly with persistence, dedication, hard work and having the right people around you theres always light at the end of the tunnel.

If my story helps other people, so be it.

People who I would never have thought of got in touch and it was like youve been through it too? Its nice to know that I wasnt the only one. I dont think its a big thing at all, but it might be a big thing to other people so if thats the case, Im glad to help.

Despite finishing on the podium, when he looks back on the final at Hayward Field, Hudson-Smith winces a little. The gameplan went out the window, he says. The one that really stung, though, was missing out on Commonwealth gold to Zambian youngster Muzala Samukonga in Birmingham.

It was a kick in the teeth, says the British champion. Christine said it best its different being the hunted rather than the hunter. With Michael Norman not there or Kirani James not there I was the person who everyone had to beat so I had that mindset of having a point to prove. I wanted to put on a show.

I tried to run 43 seconds [and break the European record] in front of a home crowd but I was tired and physically drained from coming off a plane from Eugene so when I got beaten I was mad because I thought I just gave away a victory. But I learned from it.

The subsequent victory in Munich was nothing but convincing. It was the most comfortable 44.50 Ive ever run. I was so, so happy, he grins.

There is an excitement to Hudson-Smiths voice and energy around him when he speaks of the future. He does intend to give himself a good break and eat a few chippies as he contemplates just how far he has come in 2022. In fact, success has been achieved by going back to the future.

It was almost like I went back to 2014 but having the old head and knowing what to do with it, he says. I have fun with it, I love the sport, but now I have the mileage and the battle scars to go with it.

There were veteran marathon records for Kenenisa Bekele, Krishna Stanton, Sue McDonald and Mary Slocum but problems for prospective sub-3hr runners on an eventful day in the British capital

Obviously the wins of Amos Kipruto and Yalemzerf Yehualaw took the honours at the 2022 TCS London Marathon on October 2 but there were some notable masters athletes results.

Kenenisa Bekele, many experts choice as the greatest all-round distance runner in history, is now 40 years old and he set a world M40 record of 2:05:53.

Krishna Stanton, the former Australian international running in London for Blackheath & Bromley Harriers, set a world W55 record of 2:48:06.

Racing as Krishna Wood in 1987 she finished fourth in the world indoor 3000m five hundredths of a second ahead of 1993 winner Yvonne Murray and also ahead of 1989 winner Elly Van Hulst before going on to win silver in the 2002 Commonwealth Games marathon.

In London she blasted the first 10km in 37:08 and despite slowing she was past halfway in 80:46, not far short of the actual world half-marathon record for that event.

The second half took seven minutes longer but she held on sufficiently to beat Jenny Hitchings 2:50:40 from New York in 2019, although she has run quicker than Stanton managed on a point to point course.

In second, Sue McDonald, who set a British W50 record last year, this time set a W55 record, despite not being at full health and fitness. She too went off quick with a halfway time of 85:47 and though slowing in the second half, she held together well with 21:07, 21:16 and 21:15 for her last three 5km splits.

Her chip time of 2:54:39 just about got the better of Angharad Mairs 2:54:49 from 2017.

That was not the only British record though as W60 winner Mary Slocum also set an age group mark. Listed as running for Ireland in the results, she has dual nationality and intends to run for Northern Ireland in the Masters International this autumn.

Through halfway in 1:35:40, she only lost a few minutes on the second half and her time of 3:13:26 beat the previous mark of 3:14:37 by Lynda Hembury.

The biggest name in the womens masters event though was the 1984 Olympic champion Joan Benoit Samuelson and she won the W65 event in 3:20:20, 38 years after she won in Los Angeles.

Another runner from that LA Olympics race, Yuko Gordon, who then ran for Hong Kong (34th in 2:46:12), was a lot closer here and she won the W70 race in 3:31:54 but Canadian Doreen Quapp with a two-minute negative split closed on the British age-group record-holder to just over half a minute by the finish.

Other British age-group winners among the women were W40 Helen Gaunt (2:39:10), W50 Jacqueline Rockliffe (2:54:08), W75 Sue Nicholls (4:34:31) and W80 Eileen Hieron.

British men found it harder as the non-elite race winners were M40 Gary Laybourne (2:21:07), M45 Stewart Haynes (2:24:57) and M80 Bevis Gillett (4:39:17) as the vast majority of mens titles went overseas.

The Wanda World Age Group Championship was the reason for the quality of overseas competitors which was especially good in some of the mid-masters categories. The M60 for example just had two Britons in the top 13.

The third Briton in the age group was London Marathon ever-present Chris Finill. In his 42nd London Marathon, he ran a startling 3:01:18 as he just missed out on setting a world record for the longest span of sub- three-hour marathon (43 years plus) and becoming the first Briton to run a sub-three marathon in six different decades.

He does have an excellent chance of setting that record in April though he can already lay claim to be being the most consistent three-hour runner in history having set 33 successive sub-three-hour London Marathons from 1981 to 2013 even if a sub-three has eluded him since 2019.

His near miss that time did allow myself to temporarily retain the European and British three-hour span best of 40 years which I wont be extending.

It was my 41st London Marathon, having missed the 1983 event which a well-known course measurer has insisted was slightly short but naturally the many thousands of athletes who set PBs that day which they never went on to better, insist it was fine and there is no Strava data to prove otherwise!

This year I ran just over four hours which, after Achilles problems, was done on minimal training with eight miles being the furthest I had run since the 2021 race.

For the first London Marathon I averaged 100 miles a week in the build up but here I ran less than a total of 100 miles in the three months leading up to the marathon. Its not a schedule I would recommend but at least it meant only one very painful long run (the race itself) instead of the 10 or so uncomfortable long runs I normally do!

The only reason I did run was purely to keep my run going of completing my 47th year of marathoning having run at least one marathon since 1976, after finding an alternative marathon to run in 1983. Not confident of finishing with so little training and so many niggles, I actually ran in cycling gear so I could carry stuff and not get stuck trying to get home in running gear.

Despite that I enjoyed it and it mostly reminded me that in most respects the current London Marathon is undoubtedly the worlds best though it does help that one of the starts is 400m from my door.

Every year there seem to be more modern technologies coming in. I was mightily impressed with the photos this year. I sent a selfie and seconds later I got 100 photos back and most were of me though I got a few others of different old men wearing glasses.

Yes, Berlin may be a little faster but London has the best prize money, the best elite field in depth, fantastic crowds, a stunning course in the worlds greatest city and fantastic infra-structure and it provides the best race for a elite runner, the British Championships competitors and the fun and charity runner.

However, maybe arguably not a British international runner which were in short supply in 2022 after the withdrawals of Mo Farah, Chris Thompson, Eilish McColgan and Charlotte Purdue. The gaps behind the best elites does mean many of the leading Brits often have a lonely run.

Rose Harvey, the top British runner was the only womens finisher between 2:21:42 and 2:37:56 (note, the masses started 40min behind the elite women) though she was paced for some of the race. The men was busier but only 10 men finished between 2:09:52 and 2:20:33 compared to 40 at Berlin.

I was marvelling at the efficiency of the organisation as I queued for the toilets (so many, on first look it appeared we had one each) and the speed I got into the pen and across the start and in the early miles I enjoyed the efficiency of the water stations and even the many people to warn of upcoming speed bumps.

The only time I did notice something was not quite right was around five miles when suddenly huge groups of fast club runners started overtaking the three-and-a-half-hour pace runners I was with and there were many collisions and I got baulked a number of times. I seem to recall one of the three-hour pacers passed me around halfway. I actually paced sub-three myself for many years at London back and remember thinking it was so simple back then when there were no waves and everything was done by gun time.

It later transpired that there had been a major error on the red start and a lot of angry good club runners.

One of them, Graham Merfield, said: On Red start wave one, the runners were all sub-three hours and many like me were also in the age-group world championship. We watched in horror as waves from the yellow start went off in front of us with many in fancy dress and we only left about 18 minutes after the elite runners started. Normally, I would have been right behind them.

It made for a very frustrating and dangerous race for both fast and slower runners, he added. I was passing slower runners who had clearly started ahead of me right to the finish. In the early miles and after the starts came together, the runners were so dense that it was difficult to overtake without sometimes bumping runners or we had to run on the curb and off the course. I rolled my ankle on a bottle in the middle of the course adding to the frustration and although I finished, I also have a very swollen ankle.

While there initially huge negativity about the lack of respect given to good UK club runners, London have now acknowledged that it was an unfortunate error that wont be repeated.

Race director Hugh Brasher said: Our sincere apologies to the club runners who were placed in the wrong start wave on the Red Start which meant they started behind slower runners. This was due to human error in the seeding process. We have reviewed what happened and were putting in place a process which means this should never happen again.

Elite Men:
1 Amos Kipruto KEN 2:04:39
2 Leul Gebrselassie ETH 2:05:12
3 Bashir Abdi BEL 2:05:19
4 Kinde Atanaw ETH 2:05:27
5 Kenenisa Bekele ETH 2:05:53
6 Berhanu Legesse ETH 2:06:11
7 Sisay Lemma ETH 2:07:26
8 Brett Robinson AUS 2:09:52
9 Weynay Ghebresilasie 2:11:57
10 Phil Sesemann 2:12:10
11 Kohei Futaoka JPN 2:14:18
12 Ross Braden 2:14:32
13 Naoki Okamoto JPN 2:15:05
14 Matthew Leach 2:17:28
15 Nick Bowker 2:17:35
16 Alexander Lawrence 2:17:58
17 Andrew McCann USA 2:21:39
18 Naoki Aiba JPN 2:22:45
19 Jia Erenjia CHN 2:25:17
20 Yoann Kowal FRA 2:27:59
21 William Strangeway 2:34:11

Open:
1 Tom Frith 2:18:35
2 Sean Hogan 2:18:51
3 Joe Morwood 2:20:33
4 Kenny Wilson 2:20:40
5 Gary Laybourne 2:21:07
6 Charlie Sandison 2:21:16
7 Dominic Jones 2:21:32
8 Patrick Roddy 2:22:29
9 Alex Gladley CAN 2:22:59
10 Lewis Gamble-Thompson 2:23:13
11 Joe Morrow 2:23:22
12 Daniel Bagley 2:23:48
13 Russell Bentley 2:23:51
14 Stephen Blake 2:23:56
15 Neil Kevern 2:24:45
16 Rob McTaggart 2:24:48
17 Stuart Haynes 2:24:57
18 Paul Molyneux 2:25:01
19 James Hoad 2:25:02
20 Mehdi Frere FRA 2:25:05
21 Tom Aldred 2:25:11
22 Michael Waddington 2:25:25
23 Tom Van Ongeval BEL 2:25:38
24 Ollie Garrod 2:25:38
25 Joshua Teece 2:25:45
26 Kevin Pool USA 2:25:57
27 Harry Lane 2:26:05
28 Simon Crawford 2:26:14
29 Oscar Holmström FIN 2:26:26
30 Daniel de los Reyes ESP 2:26:48
31 Lucas Baez ARG 2:26:50
32 Gareth King 2:27:10
33 Badre Din Zioini FRA 2:27:15
34 Mark Innocenti 2:27:19
35 Chris Mason 2:27:23
36 Michael Fox IRL 2:27:28
37 Ben Heron 2:27:31
38 Andrea Barcelli ITA 2:27:39
39 Blaine Penny CAN 2:27:40
40 Edward Diamond 2:27:50
41 Toyoki Sato JPN 2:27:51
42 George Suthon 2:28:01

43 Aaron Odentz 2:28:03
44 Mark McKelvie 2:28:06
45 Mohammed Elbayan 2:28:11
46 David Smale 2:28:11
47 Rob Scott 2:28:15
48 David Hudson 2:28:17
49 Tristan Windley 2:28:25
50 John Gordon 2:28:32
51 Luca Quarta ITA 2:28:32
52 Recio Alvarez DOM 2:28:34
53 Neil McClements 2:28:37
54 David Lawrence 2:28:38
55 Jacob Landers 2:28:40
56 Wat King Long HKG 2:28:48
57 Andy Greenleaf 2:28:48
58 Ian Harding 2:28:56
59 Andrew Barnes 2:29:03
60 Nicolas Besson FRA 2:29:06
61 Marcin Soszka POL 2:29:09
62 Joe Hartley 2:29:14
63 Alan Darby 2:29:20
64 Luke Goldsworthy 2:29:25
65 Tomos Roberts 2:29:33
66 Chris Bruchhausen 2:29:34
67 Nigel Hockin 2:29:42
68 Jasper McDowell 2:29:43
69 Christopher Fawcett 2:29:47
70 Aran Davidson 2:29:50

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71 Lewis Rodgers 2:29:51
72 Jordan Skelly 2:29:52
73 Tom Fairbrother 2:29:53
74 James Hurrell 2:29:54
75 Adam Hodgson 2:29:55
76 James Macdonald 2:29:56
77 Matthew Snow 2:30:00
78 Peter Coates 2:30:02
79 James Condlyffe 2:30:09
80 Will Green 2:30:26
81 Andrea Fraquelli 2:30:27
82 Simeon Bates 2:30:27
83 Ben Duncan 2:30:27
84 Andrew Ferguson AUS 2:30:29
85 Christoph Hillebrand GER 2:30:37
86 Anis Chefirat FRA 2:30:47
87 Joseph Houlton 2:30:48
88 Ian Bailey 2:30:53
89 James Horman 2:30:54
90 Will Pannell 2:31:07
91 Jack Kidd 2:31:31
92 Harrison Read 2:31:32
93 Lee Baynton 2:31:38
94 Ryan Russell CAN 2:31:40
95 David McKinnon 2:31:40
96 William Talleri ITA 2:31:45
97 Luc Schout NED 2:31:49
98 Paddy ODonnell IRL 2:31:53
99 John Deighan NOR 2:31:54
100 Wayne Loveridge 2:31:54
101 Lewis Clarke 2:32:04
102 Jack Chitty 2:32:07
103 Kyle Brooks 2:32:08
104 Damien Bruneau 2:32:09
105 Michael Alwin 2:32:17
106 Richard Lilley 2:32:28
107 Michael Sandiford 2:32:28
108 Jonathan Horan 2:32:30
109 Peter Lighting 2:32:35
110 Scott Yule 2:32:45
111 Andrew Siggers 2:32:48
112 Jonas Müller GER 2:32:55
113 Adam Smyth IRL 2:32:55
114 Timothy Bowen IRL 2:32:56
115 Benjamin Howe 2:32:56
116 Carl Jones 2:33:01
117 Espen Udjus Frorud NOR 2:33:03
118 Jonathan Walton 2:33:05
119 Dale Seddon 2:33:06
120 Andrew McCarron 2:33:07

121 Hugo Fry 2:33:12
122 Allan Christie 2:33:15
123 Jonathan Poole 2:33:16
124 Jack Chennell 2:33:17
125 Samuel Kelly 2:33:20
126 Martin Müller GER 2:33:23
127 Thierry Ini ITA 2:33:25
128 James Dwyer USA 2:33:25
129 Nick Tulp 2:33:31
130 Ben Leaman 2:33:36
131 Chris Jordan 2:33:38
132 Wail Aidem FRA 2:33:46
133 Roman Banias UKR 2:33:46
134 Rhys Doherty 2:33:51
135 Jamie Corbett 2:33:57
136 Nicholas Browne NZL 2:33:57
137 Ross Matthews 2:34:05
138 Jonathan Hilling 2:34:06
139 Oliver Rose 2:34:10
140 Ben Clarke 2:34:11
141 Phil Melling 2:34:12
142 Sion Lewis 2:34:20
143 Tony Connelly 2:34:21
144 Kevin Francis 2:34:23
145 John Gilfedder 2:34:27
146 Michael Christoforou 2:34:29
147 David Millns 2:34:32
148 Andrew Lawrence 2:34:35
149 Luc Burnip 2:34:36
150 David Jarrett 2:34:39

Elite women
1 Yalemzerf Yehualaw ETH 2:17:26
2 Joyciline Jepkosgei KEN 2:18:07
3 Alemu Megertu ETH 2:18:32
4 Judith Korir KEN 2:18:43
5 Joan Chelimo ROU 2:19:27
6 Ashete Bekere ETH 2:19:30
7 Mary Ngugi KEN 2:20:22
8 Sutume Asefa ETH 2:20:44
9 Ai Hosoda JPN 2:21:42
10 Rose Harvey 2:27:59
11 Marci Gage USA 2:37:56
12 Steph Twell 2:39:16

Mass women:
1 Hannah Alderson 2:35:56
2 Anya Culling 2:36:21
3 Dani Nimmock 2:38:18
4 Helen Gaunt 2:39:10
5 Johanna ORegan 2:40:20
6 Chiara Mainetti ARG 2:40:23
7 Mai Fujisawa JPN 2:41:40
8 Emma Houchell 2:42:57
9 Natasha Bliss USA 2:43:28
10 Belinda Houghton 2:44:03
11 Margarita Quintero Petris MEX 2:44:27
12 Anna Boniface 2:44:34
13 Hannah Lucas 2:45:19
14 Alaw Beynon-Thomas 2:45:36
15 Amy Harris 2:46:10
16 Alice McGushin AUS 2:46:24
17 Rachel Owen 2:46:48
18 Sarah Short AUS 2:47:06
19 Verena Vogt GER 2:47:06
20 Catalina Langlois CHI 2:47:26
21 Sarah Hunter 2:47:35
22 Charlie Hanson 2:47:35
23 Abbey Van Dijk 2:47:35
24 Vicky Wright 2:47:36
25 Abby Halcarz 2:47:58
26 Becky Penty 2:48:00
27 Jessie Lutwyche 2:48:04
28 Krishna Stanton AUS 2:48:06 (World W55 record)
29 Sioned Howells 2:48:09
30 Nicola Macdonald 2:48:27
31 Danica Slavka Kusanovic Maldonado CHI 2:48:41
32 Sophie Delderfield 2:48:47
33 Carly Larios USA 2:48:48
34 Leah Fitzgerald AUS 2:48:52
35 Katie King 2:49:10
36 Rosie Wild 2:49:16
37 Astrid Roberts AUS 2:49:24
38 Olivia Desborough 2:49:41
39 Della Hatfield 2:49:59
40 Jessica Saunders 2:50:01
41 Annie Birch 2:50:15
42 Emily Marchant 2:50:16
43 Camilla McKnespiey 2:51:01
44 Katya Olivares Alvarez MEX 2:51:21
45 Josie Rawes 2:51:22
46 Elizabeth Dimond 2:51:23
47 Charlotte Ragan 2:51:27
48 Josie Hinton 2:51:46
49 Juliet Vine 2:51:55
50 Becky Wright 2:52:23
51 Gillian McCrory IRL 2:52:26
52 Troi Baxter 2:52:32
53 Kelly Nel RSA 2:52:33
54 Claudia Burrough 2:53:26
55 Ania Maria Gabb 2:53:29
56 Eliza Hawthorn 2:53:50
57 Meaghan Murray USA 2:53:57
58 Hilde Losgård Landheim NOR 2:54:00
59 Hannah Pullen 2:54:01
60 Jacqueline Rockliffe 2:54:08
61 Jessica Welborn 2:54:35
62 Susan McDonald 2:54:39 (UK W55 rec)

Mass (Note, Kenenisa Bekele ran 2:05:53 on elite start)
M40:
1 G Laybourne GBR 2:21:07; 2 R Bentley GBR 2:23:51; 3 P Molyneux GBR 2:25:01; 4 T Aldred GBR 2:25:11; 5 G King GBR 2:27:10; 6 M Innocenti GBR) 2:27:19; 7 T Sato JPN 2:27:51; 8 D Hudson GBR 2:28:17; 9 L Quarta ITA 2:28:32; 10 R Alvarez DOM 2:28:34; 11 A Greenleaf GBR 2:28:48; 12 I Harding GBR 2:28:56; 13 N Besson FRA 2:29:06; 14 J Macdonald GBR 2:29:56

M45:
1 S Haynes GBR 2:24:57; 2 B Zioini FRA 2:27:15; 3 B Penny CAN 2:27:40; 4 W Green GBR 2:30:26; 5 C Anis FRA 2:30:47; 6 W Talleri ITA 2:31:45; 7 D Bruneau GBR 2:32:09; 8 C Jones GBR 2:33:01

M50:
1 T Van Ongeval BEL 2:25:38; 2 J Walton GBR 2:33:05; 3 M Vaughan GBR 2:36:03; 4 R Jongh NED 2:36:29; 5 D Williams GBR 2:36:47; 6 R Trulla ITA 2:39:53

M55:
1 G Maiorano ITA 2:36:44; 2 T Tayeri USA 2:39:49; 3 T Meigs USA 2:45:34; 4 C Lentz USA 2:46:13; 5 S Hoey IRL 2:47:06 6 Y El Sayed LIB 2:48:03; 7 R Ashton GBR 2:48:54; 8 C Dyce GBR 2:49:04; 9 P Holley GBR 2:49:35; 10 J Ratcliffe GBR 2:49:50

M60:
1 B Murphy CAN 2:44:16; 2 N Kelly GBR 2:49:03; 3 J Guillen USA 2:49:15; 4 I James GBR 2:52:45; 5 A Gaytan USA 2:52:47; 6 S Schmidt USA 2:52:52; 7 H Notaro USA 2:54:46; 8 J Oliveira Martins POR 2:55:09; 14 C Finill GBR 3:01:18

M65:
1 D Walters USA 2:56:45; 2 P Hughes GBR 2:57:43; 3 H Souza BRA 3:00:41; 4 B Martin GBR 3:09:47; 5 S Gil POL 3:13:54; 6 T Coyle GBR 3:14:09; 7 D Butler GBR) 3:14:21; 8 W Crowe CAN 3:16:08; 9 A Madge GBR 3:18:14

M70:
1 G Dykes USA 3:19:50; 2 D Alcock (GBR) 3:23:14; 3 J Camilleri CAN 3:24:43; 4 J Woodnutt GBR 3:35:46; 5 Y Kawase JPN 3:39:52; 6 J Holterman NED 3:40:32; 7 M Hammond GBR) 3:43:26; 8 G Moss GBR 3:43:27

M75:
1 V Petrovic CAN 3:48:53; 2 P Rossiter GBR 3:52:36; 3 R Butler GBR 3:56:01; 4 J Fanshawe GBR 4:00:59; 5 P McDonald GBR 4:08:55; 6 D Winch GBR 4:12:22

M80:
1 B Gillett GBR 4:39:17; 2 J Kane GBR 4:42:03; 3 G Miller CAN 4:56:26; 4 A Bent GBR 5:14:53; 5 H Newton GBR 5:24:38

W40:
1 H Gaunt GBR 2:39:10; 2 N Bliss USA) 2:43:28; 3 V Vogt GER) 2:47:06; 4 C Langlois CHI 2:47:26; 5 K Olivares MEX 2:51:21; 6 G McCrory GBR 2:52:26; 7 J Watkinson GBR 2:55:21; 8 S Smith USA 2:56:19; 9 T Millmore GBR 2:56:21; 10 K Ward GBR 2:57:33

W45:
1 M Fujisawa JPN 2:41:40; 2 V Wright GBR 2:47:36; 3 A Roberts AUS 2:49:24; 4 S Flaherty GBR 2:57:07; 5 S Lemberger USA 2:57:31; 6 G Pearson GBR 2:59:33

W50:
1 J Rockliffe GBR 2:54:08; 2 K Harris GBR 2:57:30; 3C Hoskins GBR 2:57:34; 4 K Streams GBR 2:57:36; 5 F Carter GBR 3:00:52; 6 J Pettersen CAN 3:04:20; 9 S Birkin GBR 3:06:22

W55:
1 K Stanton AUS 2:48:06; 2 S McDonald GBR 2:54:39; 3 S Mix USA 2:57:11; 4 A Riddell-Webster GBR 2:58:19; 5 K Neesam GBR 3:01:37; 6 J Warner GBR 3:03:26

W60:
1 M Slocum IRL/GBR 3:13:26; 2 E Waywell CAN 3:15:51; 3 S George USA 3:18:35; 4 E Chalat USA 3:19:50; 5 A Norris GBR 3:20:03; 6 S Reiley USA 3:24:02; 9 H Geldert GBR 3:25:49; 11 C Ferguson GBR 3:28:16

W65:
1 J Benoit-Samuelson USA 3:20:20; 2 J Bremner GBR 3:28:12; 3 C Sexton USA 3:30:07; 4 L Cohen USA 3:35:38; 5 A Newman USA 3:43:56; 11 M Batchelor GBR 3:59:34; 12 J Phillips GBR 3:59:53

W70:
1 Y Gordon GBR 3:31:54; 2 D Quapp CAN 3:32:39; 3 C Stevens GBR 3:45:52; 4 R Smith CAN 3:50:31; 5 J Tombs GBR 4:14:44

W75:
1 S Nicholls GBR 4:34:31; 2 G Little GBR 4:54:02; 3 M Crosswell GBR 5:05:31; 4 V Brown GBR 5:27:03 5 P Bingham 5:43:43

W80:
1 E Hieron GBR 5:48:04; 2 R Richter GER 6:59:08; 3 P Seabrook GBR 7:01:49

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Wheelchair:
Men:
1 M Hug SUI 1:24:38
2 D Romanchuk USA 1:24:40
3 D Weir GBR 1:30:41
4 T Suzuki JPN 1:30:41
5 J Plat NED 1:30:44
6 A Pike USA 1:33:05
7 S Watanabe JPN 1:34:16
8 J Lappin AUS 1:34:16
9 P Monahan IRL 1:34:16
10 J Smith GBR 1:34:17

Women:
1 C Debrunner SUI 1:38:24
2 S Scaroni USA 1:42:21
3 E Rainbow-Cooper GBR 1:47:27
4 M Menje GER 1:47:28
5 J Fesemyer USA 1:47:28
6 W Tsuchida JPN 1:47:28
7 V De Souza BRA 1:47:29
8 Y Hoang USA 1:47:29
9 A Rocha BRA 1:47:32
10 C Dawes AUS 1:47:33

Further results to be published when processed by Power of 10 including Mini London Marathon results.

British sprinters failed test not intentional due to contaminated supplement

CJ Ujah has been cleared by the Athletics Integrity Unit and World Anti-Doping Agency of intentionally taking the banned substances ostarine and S-23, but wont be able to compete again until June of next year.

The 28-year-old sprinter was part of the Great Britain 4x100m team which won Olympic silver alongside Reece Prescod, Zharnel Hughes and Richard Kilty back in Tokyo, until the quartet were stripped of their medals due to the adverse finding of prohibited substances in Ujahs drugs test.

That disqualification still stands.

The AIU has banned Chijindu Ujah of Britain for 22 months from 6 August, 2021, for the presence of Ostarine and S-23.

Details here: https://t.co/dsEI0T5oUy pic.twitter.com/TfPBAeFhLm

Athletics Integrity Unit (@aiu_athletics) October 10, 2022

Ujah will not face the prospect of a four-year ban, though, due to the fact that the prohibited substances ostarine and S-23, which are reported to provide similar benefits to testosterone, were part of a contaminated supplement and that it was not intentional.

Instead, he has received a 22-month ban, reduced by two months due to the fact that he recognised the adverse finding upon notification. That has been backdated from August 6, 2021, meaning that Ujah will be able to compete again next June.

The AIU and WADA were satisfied that the sprinters anti-doping rule violation was not intentional as a result of his ingestion of a contaminated supplement and the applicable two-year period of ineligibility was reduced by two months on account of how promptly he admitted the violation, the AIU said in a statement.

With the World Championships taking place in Hungary between August 19-27, there is the prospect that Ujah could soon represent Great Britain once again in a major championship.

He will also be free to race at next years British Championships on June 23-25 and the Diamond League in London on July 23.

At UKA we are committed to a culture that supports the athletes individual and collective responsibility to clean sport, British Athletics said in a statement.

We therefore express our extreme disappointment, frustration and sadness that the actions of CJ Ujah resulted in the GB & NI team members forfeiting their hard-earned medals. The negligence of one individual to fulfil their commitment to clean athletics one of the essential obligations of representing GB & NI had a devastating impact upon the entire relay programme, but none more so than the other athletes who competed alongside Ujah in the Olympic final.

The sanction handed down to CJ Ujah suspending him from competing within the sport, the resulting impact upon his team-mates and their families and support networks as well as the huge disappointment to GB & NI team fans reinforces the importance of clean sport.

The full AIU statement can be read here.