London Marathon: Felix Limo denied fellow Kenyan Martin Lel a second successive Flora London Marathon title in a thrilling sprint finish.
Limo, 25, last autumn's Chicago champion and a winner in Rotterdam and Berlin too, won in the unofficial time of two hours six minutes and 38 seconds when he outpaced his countryman in the final 100 metres.
South Africa's Hendrick Ramaala matched his third placing of 12 months ago, while pre-race favourite Haile Gebrselassie fell off the pace in the final two miles.
The leading men's contenders, including race favourite and four-times world 10,000 metres champion Gebrselassie remained tightly bunched on a cool, wet morning until the 30 km mark when Kenyan Evans Rutto accelerated to the front.
Rutto was unable to shake off the pack and the next break came at 38 km when Kenyan Rogers Rop and Lel moved away.
Ramaala responded before Limo and Lel made their final move. The pair ran stride for stride until Limo surged over the final metres to win by two seconds.
In the women's race Olympic bronze medallist Deena Kastor cruised to an untroubled win in the after an early break split the elite women's field.
The 33-year-old American, winner of last year's Chicago race, clocked a personal best of two hours 19 minutes 36 seconds in a perfectly judged race on a cool wet morning.
Kastor joined Kenyans Susan Chepkemei and Saina Kosgei in a break within the first three km behind two male pacemakers.
The trio went through 15 km in 49 minutes 41 seconds before Kosgei dropped off the pace. Chepkemei tracked Kastor until 25 km when the American pulled away.
She passed the 30 km mark in 1:39:08 and held on to win ahead of Russian Lydmila Petrova who made a late run to relegate Chepkemei to third place.
Kastor, a former track runner, ran her first marathon in New York five years ago. She clocked her previous best of 2:21:16 when she finished third in the 2003 London race and in the following year she became the first American to win an Olympic medal since Joan Benoit who finished first at the 1984 Los Angeles Games.
This month she warmed up for the London race by breaking her Amercian half marathon mark of 67 minutes 34 seconds while finishing second in Berlin.