The East London Runners club had 32 runners participating in this year’s London Marathon, four of whom managed to come inside the top 1,000.

The 34th instalment of the annual event featured just short of 31,000 runners, demonstrating quite how impressive their times were.

Euan Brown, making his London Marathon debut, clocked in at 2.44.00 to finish 325th overall.

Ciaran Canavan came in next at 2.48.11 to finish 485th, followed by Patrick Brown’s 2.51.00 and Menjit Bedi’s 2.53.25, finishing them 625th and 743rd respectively.

Olympic gold-medallist Mo Farah may have been running his very first London Marathon, but that wasn’t the case for several members of the ELR. Jim Bird impressively completed the 26 miles for the 29th time, clocking in at 8.15.30. Michael Wilson managed his 17th run in 3.50.20.

There were personal bests for Mark Boulton whose time of 2.57.53 was very close to being in the top 1,000. Ava Lee, Peter Hatley, Sheila Kennedy, Sarah Burns and Steven Bywater also managed to record personal bests.

Full list of times:

326th Euan Brown - 2.44.00 debut,

485th Ciaran Canavan - 2.48.11,

625th Patrick Brown - 2.51.00,

743rd Manjit Bedi - 2.53.25,

Mark Boulton - 2.57.53 (pb),

Ava Lee - 3.12.09 (pb)

Will Pearce - 3.16.49,

Peter Hatley - 3.19.20 pb,

Lee Wollaston - 3.27.35,

Yvonne Shashoua - 3.30.17,

Allan Todd - 3.38.45,

James Creed -3.41.04,

Alex Haward - 3.47.12,

Carrine Jay - 3.47.22,

Andy Jenkins - 3.49.46,

Michael Wilson- 3.50.20,

Ramesh Pala - 3.53.52,

Ajit Rehal - 3.57.05,

Paul Charters - 3.59.46,

John Healy - 4.00.24,

Sheila Kennedy - 4.03.08 (pb),

Sarah Burns - 4.06.32 (pb),

Dave Knight - 4.12.54,

Steven Bywater - 4.16.55 (pb),

Frank Brownlie - 4.16.55,

Dan Spinks - 4.18.41,

Jim Bird - 8.15.30

Debut Runs: Natalie Lee - 4.22.08, Shahib Ali - 4.25.22, Sangeeta Dimming - 4.34.00, Sarah Stack - 4.34.41 and Alison Jones - 5.47.42.