Wanjiru claims London title

Olympic champion Sammy Wanjiru kept his nerve to win the men’s Flora London Marathon ahead of Beijing bronze-medallist Tsegay Kebede.

Wanjiru, whose attempt to break Haile Gebrselassie’s world record fizzled out just after the halfway point, won in the fastest time of his career – an unofficial course record of two hours, five minutes, 10 seconds.