London Marathon: Mum allowed to defer entry in policy change

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London Marathon: Mum allowed to defer entry in policy change
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The new policy allows for pregnant and postpartum runners to defer entries in the same category for three years.

A mother who has successfully campaigned for the London Marathon to change its rules for postpartum entrants has said she is delighted.Under the old rules, she would not have been allowed to keep her championship race entry for October 2021's race.allows for pregnant and postpartum runners to defer entries in the same category for three years.

When she then had her son in January 2021, she was advised that running the race in October might be unsafe because C-section scars can take months to heal.It could have been unsafe for Ms Geraghty to run so soon after childbirth "I was going to take the general entry because marathon spots are coveted, but it really felt like they were penalising me," she said.

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