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Nottinghamshire athlete smashes his own world record
At the 2026 London Marathon, Nottinghamshire athlete Richard Whitehead smashed his own World Marathon Record for athletes with bilateral knee amputations. He ran the famous race in just 2 hours, 40 minutes, 25 seconds.
He joined Verity to tell her how it went.
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