With a marathon time like this, no one will ever bring Cynthia Erivo down. The star ran the London Marathon on Sunday (April 26), and this time she set a new personal best. The Wicked star completed the race with a time of 3:21:40, beating her 2022 London Marathon time of 3:35:36 and New York City Marathon time of 3:57:07 by a sizable margin.
In a picture perfect moment, Erivo crossed the finish line to Wicked‘s “Defying Gravity.” (The track peaked at No. 44 on the Billboard Hot 100 in December 2024.)
Erivo partnered with sports gear brand Brooks Running for the marathon, wearing the brand for the race and appearing in one of its recent campaigns. After the race, Brooks Running congratulated the star on her new personal best via a joint Instagram post.
“A good run is simply the run that happened,” the brand wrote. “Today, it happened to be a new personal best.”
Erivo commented, thanking the Brooks Running team for “being there every step of the way.”
Since February, Erivo has been performing in a new one-woman stage adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula on London’s West End, in which she plays all 23 roles. In a March interview with Runner’s World, Erivo shared that she made time for her marathon training in her busy schedule by prioritizing her running over everything else.
“Everything starts with the run,” Erivo explained. “The schedule doesn’t happen if the run’s not included.”
Just one day after running the London Marathon, Erivo will return to the Dracula stage on Monday (April 27). Dracula will run through May 30.
Watch Erivo cross the London Marathon’s finish line below:
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