Peter Andre and Katie Price run London Marathon

Singer Peter Andre and his wife Katie Price joined throngs of competitors in the 2009 Flora London Marathon on Sunday.

More than 35,000 runners set off from the starting line at Greenwich on the 26.2-mile course.

Olympic champion Sammy Wanjiru was the first man to cross the finish line, setting a course record time of 2:05:10.

In the elite women’s race, Briton Mara Yamauchi gave the crowd reason to cheer by being second across the line, clocking a personal best time of 2:23:12.

Celebrity runners Peter Andre and Katie Price kept photographers – and more than 750,000 spectators – waiting by jogging across the finish line a little over seven hours after the starting gun was fired at 9.45am.

The London Marathon first started in 1981.