LONDON, Sept. 14 (Xinhua) -- The 2016 London Marathon raised a record-breaking 59.4 million pounds (about 540 million RMB) for charity, setting a new world record for an annual single day charity fundraising event for the 10th successive year.
The total raised was up more than 5 million pounds from the 54.1 million in 2015 and takes the total raised since the event was founded in 1981 to more than 830 million.
The 2016 event saw a record number of finishers with 39,140 runners crossing the line in front of Buckingham Palace. Shannon Foudy, a serving police officer from Hemel Hempstead, became the millionth finisher in the history of the event.
