The TCS London Marathon will be Sammi Kinghorn's first marathon in seven years.
The 29-year-old claimed the biggest win of her career in Paris last summer when she won her first Paralympic gold medal in the T53 category of the 100m.
Kinghorn has also won three World Championship medals over 100m and 200m and showed the range of her talent by finishing fourth at the 2018 Commonwealth Games marathon in Australia – but that was the last time Kinghorn raced over the 26.2-mile distance.
Kinghorn said: “I am super excited to be competing in the TCS London Marathon for the first time. I'm doing this as a challenge for myself and to enjoy the experience of racing in front of a home crowd. I'm not putting any pressure on myself to finish in a particular place, just to push myself to see how well I can do.”
Although the TCS London Marathon will be a first for Kinghorn, she can trace her roots in wheelchair racing back to the event, as her first ever race was the 2012 Mini London Marathon, where she finished second.
Kinghorn said: “I have the best memories of competing in the Mini London Marathon and it's one of the reasons I fell in love with wheelchair racing.”
Kinghorn, who grew up on a farm in Scotland, is also well known for presenting on the BBC One show Countryfile.
She will join the world’s best wheelchair marathon racers on the Start Line of the 2025 TCS London Marathon on Sunday 27 April, including Paralympic champion Catherine Debrunner, multiple London Marathon winner Manuela Schär and Britain’s number one marathon racer Eden Rainbow-Cooper.
Another late entrant in the wheelchair fields for the 2025 TCS London Marathon is Britain’s Nathan Maguire, who won a bronze medal over 800m at last year’s Para Athletics World Championships in Kobe, Japan.
Maguire, 27, is a two-time Paralympian who just missed out on the medals in the 400m and 800m at last year’s Paralympic Games, where he finished fourth in both disciplines.
The TCS London Marathon will be Maguire’s first race over the marathon distance but, like Kinghorn, he is a Mini London Marathon alumnus, having won the race twice as a junior athlete in 2014 and 2015.
Maguire will join Marcel Hug, the Paralympic champion who has won the last four London Marathons in a row, and eight-time champion David Weir in the men’s wheelchair race on Sunday 27 April.