UK's Top Celebrity Marathon Fundraisers Revealed.

With just under a week until the London Marathon, Sir Steve Redgrave, former British rower and five times Olympic gold medalist, has been named as the UK’s top fundraising celebrity marathoner by JustGiving, the UK’s most popular online fundraising platform.

Redgrave has raised more than £1.75 million for his charity, the Steve Redgrave Trust, by undertaking the London Marathon - more than any other celebrity runner featured on JustGiving.

Other celebrity marathon runners who have set up fundraising pages include TV personalities (e.g. Amanda Holden), pop stars (e.g. Peter Andre), political players (e.g. Alastair Campbell) and other sporting heroes (e.g. Michael Watson).

Sir Steve Redgrave’s admirable fundraising feat was followed in second place by Blair’s former right-hand man, Alastair Campbell, who managed to raise over £300,000 for Leukaemia and Lymphoma Research.  Peter Andre came in at third place, raising over £22,000 in aid of children’s charity, the NSPCC.

Anne-Marie Huby, MD at JustGiving, said: “The London Marathon is the largest annual fundraising event on the planet and runners have raised a mind boggling £500 million for charity since the race  started in 1981.

"Of this amount, £116m has been raised via JustGiving.com over the past decade. We are delighted to see the incredible efforts of the celebrities who use JustGiving.com, matched by those members of the public and we look forward to continuing to support their accomplishments in the future.”

Amongst the celebrities set to run the 2011 London Marathon are Katie Price, Will Young, Shayne Ward,  Nikki Sanderson and Ronni Ancona.

The Top 10 celebrity marathon fundraisers on JustGiving are:

1.Sir Steve Redgrave
Britain's greatest Olympian, Sir Steve Redgrave, raised £1,796,382 for the Steve Redgrave Trust when he ran the London Marathon in 2006.

2.Alastair Campbell
Alastair, who is currently starring in Jamie’s Dream School on Channel 4, ran the marathon in 2003 in honour of the 50th anniversary of Leukaemia and Lymphoma Research and in memory of his friend, Henry Hodge, who died from leukaemia and raised more than £319,927.

3.Peter Andre
Peter raised more than £22,000 for the NSPCC when he ran the London Marathon in 2009 with former wife Katie Price.

4.Michael Watson
After a boxing contest with Chris Eubank in 1991 went horribly wrong, Michael was left in a wheelchair, paralysed down his left side and with only half the function of his brain.  11 years on in 2003, Michael’s spirit and determination propelled him to walk the London Marathon. He completed the 26.2 mile course in six days and raised over £18,000 for the Brain and Spine Foundation.

5.Evan Davis
Presenter of Dragon’s Den, Evan Davis, turned his attention beyond the world of business and economics and turned his hand to raising almost £16,000 for The Anthony Nolan Trust by completing the London Marathon in 2007.

6.Gordon and Tana Ramsay
Gordon and Tana Ramsay ran the London Marathon with their friend Dr Margo Whiteford, chair of the Scottish Spina Bifida Association – which was also their chosen charity for which they raised over £9,000 for in 2009.

7.Amanda Holden
Britain’s Got Talent judge Amanda Holden raised more than £7,000 for Born Free by completing the London Marathon in 2008.

8.Dave Lamb
The famously dry narrator of Channel 4’s Come Dine with Me raised nearly £6,000 for the NSPCC when he ran the marathon in 2009.

9.Katie Price
Katie Price is running this year’s London Marathon for Vision Charity and The Pituitary Foundation, for which she is a patron for both, and has raised nearly £4,000 for the causes so far.

10.Dick and Dom
The acclaimed comedy duo ran the 2010 London Marathon in aid of Myeloma UK, a cause close to Dom’s heart as his Father-in-law Tommy battled the disease for two years and sadly passed away in 2007. The children’s favourites raised over £3,000 for the cause.