Game of Thrones star Natalie Dormer goes sub-four at London Marathon
Game of Thrones star Natalie Dormer ran the 2016 London Marathon for the second time in three years finishing in under four hours.
Among the thousands of participants at Sunday morning’s London Marathon were a handful of celebrities including English actress Natalie Dormer, a star on the HBO television series, Game of Thrones. She completed the 42.195K distance on the same day that season six of the show premiered.
Dormer, 34, plays Margaery Tyrell on the hit series, which she has starred in since 2012. Tyrell is a supporting character in the books but plays a more prominent role in the television series. The actress also appeared in two Hunger Games films.
The television star was running for ChildLine, a 24-hour counselling service for children and young people. She completed Sunday’s race in 3:51:21, negative splitting the race (second half faster than the first).
She also ran the race in 2014 in an almost-identical 3:50:57.
According to the Telegraph, Dormer will relax this evening by watching the season premiere of the show.
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Natalie Dormer is in one of most popular TV shows ever, but unaffected by fame. Lovely lady #GOT #londonmarathon pic.twitter.com/tmwmg2E5bq
— Sonja McLaughlan (@Sonjamclaughlan) April 24, 2016
Meanwhile, astronaut Tim Peake also took part in the London Marathon, but from space. He finished the marathon in world record time, clocking 3:35:21. See select moments from his run below:
@esa astronaut @astro_timpeake sets new record for Fastest marathon in space #LondonMarathon https://t.co/8a5K9YW04L pic.twitter.com/xbBOcOuShV
— GuinnessWorldRecords (@GWR) April 24, 2016
Hello #London! Fancy a run? 🙂 #LondonMarathon https://t.co/CvaUjUo7IU pic.twitter.com/SLckqOp8Gk
— Tim Peake (@astro_timpeake) April 24, 2016
42 km, while @Space_Station flew almost 100000 km. Congratulations to everyone in #LondonMarathon & #teamastronaut…gonna sleep well tonight!
— Tim Peake (@astro_timpeake) April 24, 2016
Below is what Peake’s run looked like as he virtually followed along with competitors running in London on Sunday morning:
A few miles earlier @astro_timpeake over Tower Bridge Digital #LondonMarathon pic.twitter.com/vXGcFSiFQQ
— RunSocial (@runsocial) April 24, 2016
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Cover photo via Gage Skidmore and licensed under Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0.
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